Evolutionism in the Pulpit 29 in total failure. The middle link has not been found and never will be.” That the Darwinian theory of descent has in the realms of nature not a single fact to confirm it is the unequivocal testi- mony of men as distinguished in their respective departments of scientific research, as Dr. N. S. Shaler pf Harvard Univer- sity ; Dr. Etheridge, fossiologist of the British Museum ; Prof. L. S. Beale, of King’s College, London; Prof. Fleischmann, of Erlangen, and others. Says Dr. Etheridge: “Nine-tenths of the talk of evolu- tionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by fact. This museum is full of proofs, of the utter falsity of their views.” Professor Beale asserts: “There is no evidence that man has descended from, or is, or was, in any way specially related to, any other organism in nature through evolution or by any other process. In sup- port of all naturalistic conjectures concerning man’s origin, there is not at this time a shadow of scientific évidence.” Professor Fleischmann sums up his estimate of the Dar- winian theory of the descent of man by affirming that “it has in the realms of nature not a single fact to confirm it. I t is not the result of scientific research, but purely the product of the imagination.” Even Professor Haeckel admits in his old age that he, among all his contemporaries, stands alone. “Most modern investigators,” he confesses, “have come to the conclusion that the doctrine of evolution, and particularly Darwinianism, is an error and can not be maintained.” Touching his last re-affirmation of his naturalistic views, Dr. A. C. Dixon telU us that a scholarly man in Geneva said to him at the time that it was “the note of the dying swan,” and Haeckel the “only scientific man of eminence in Germany today who be- lieves in Darwinian evolution.” Several notable books bearing on this subject have ap- peared during the last two years. One by George Paulin,
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