THE DARWIN THEORY.
Thomas Gahlyi.e, in a recent conversation with an American gentleman, took occasion, in a very concise hut emphatic way, to express his opinion of Darwin ami the men who adopt his views. Said he ;“ A good sort of man is this Darwin, and well-meaning, but with very little intellect. Ah, it’s a sad and terrible thing to see nigh a whole generation of men and women, professing to bo cultivated, looking around in a purblind fashion, and finding no God in this universe. L suppose it is a reaction from the reign of cant and hollow pretence, professing to believe what in i'act they do not believe. And this is what we have got to. All things from frog spawn : the gospel ot dirt the order of the day. The older I grow—and I now stand on the brink of eternity—the more comes hack to mo the sentence in the catechism, which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes— ‘ What is the great end of man ? ’ ‘To glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever/ No gospel of dirt, teaching that men’ have descended from frogs through monkeys, can ever set that aside.”
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 191, 7 February 1877, Page 2
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