A STORY ABOUT CARLYLE
Apropos of Carlyle, I recall some fugitive notes of an interview between him and an American visitor on the subject of Darwinism, in which he is reported as saying .—“ 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 woman, professing , to. be cultivated, looking around in a purblind fashion and seeing no God in this universe. I suppose it is a reaction from the reign of cant and hollow pretence, professing to believe what in fact they do not believe. And this is what they have got to : all things from frog spawn—the gospel of dirt the order of the day. The older I grow—and I now stand upon of eternity—the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism, which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes— ‘ What is the chief 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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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2536, 7 May 1881, Page 2
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195A STORY ABOUT CARLYLE South Canterbury Times, Issue 2536, 7 May 1881, Page 2
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