T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S mal forms buried in the rocky strata of the earth tell us of their own introduc tion and succession on the surface of the globe. The theory is a scientific mistake, untrue in its facts, unscien tific in its methods, and mischievous in its tendency . . . There is not a fact known to science tending to show that any being in the natural process of reproduction and multiplication has ever diverged from the course natural to its kind, or that a single kind has even been transmuted into any other.” •“Dr Joseph Henry, late secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Pro fessor Arnold Henry Guyot, of Prince ton University, names that rank with those of any American scientist of late date, emphatically discredited t h e theory of evolution and are to be class ed with Professors Agassiz, Shaler, Dwight and Everett.” Dr. William Hanna Thomson, former president of the New York Academy of Medicine: “ The Darwinian theory is now rejected by the majority of biolo gists as absurdly inadequate, owing to its principle being wholly negative. Se lection of any kind does not produce anything, but only chooses between that which already exists. Evolution never was a cause of anything. It is almost pathetic to read how Huxley and Dar win, in their day, fancied that because the primate homo-man—-was so well in keeping with the evolution of the other primates, therefore they had scientifi cally accounted for man. It is absurd to rank man among the animals. His so-called fellow-animals, the primates— gorilla, arong, and chimpanzee— can do nothing truly human.” Dr. Leavitt, Ex-President of Lehigh University: “ All the facts of the past cycles of the earth are against Darwin ism. Protoplasm evolving a universe is a superstition more pitiable than the paganism which worshipped the image of Diana as the mother of creation.”
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The Canadian geologist, Sir William Dawson: “ The record of the rocks is decidedly against evolutionists, especial ly in the abrupt appearance of new forms under separate specific types, and without apparent predecessors. . . . So we shall find in the progress of or ganic being, that every grade of life was in its highest and best estate when first introduced, and before it was . made subordinate to some higher type. This is in short one of the great general laws of creation suggested in Genesis and worked out in detail by geology. . ( . . No case is certainly known in hu man experience where any species of animal or plant has been so changed as to assume all the characteristics of a new species. . . . In tracing back animals and groups of animals in geolo gic times we find that they always end without any link of connection with previous being, and under circum stances which render any connection highly improbable. . • . Nothing is known about the origin of man except what we are told ,in Scripture— that God created him with a rational and moral nature, of which there is no trace in the animal kingdom.” Dr. Etheridge, of the British Museum:, famous expert in fossilology: “ In all this great museum there is not a parti cle of evidence of transmutation of species. Nine-tenths of the talk of evo lutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by fact. This museum isvfull of proofs of the utter falsity of their views.” Professor Lionel S. Beale, Physiolo gist, and professor of anatomy and pathology in King’s College, London: “The idea of any relation having been established between the non-living and living, by a gradual advance from life less matter to the lowest forms of life and so onwards to the higher and more complex, has not the slightest evidence from the facts of any section of living
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