68 The Fundamentals possible. “Attenuation” and “time” would have been but con ditions, not causes. They could prove nothing. It is false that in the struggle for existence the “fittest” survive. The “fittest” is an ambiguous word. With natural selection it means the strongest and best armed. They do not survive; they degenerate and expire. They who bear arms challenge attack. This providence may be penal or cor rective. I t is false that man is derived from a brute and a brute from a vegetable. One of the forces of human life makes for a recognition of God and a consciousness of sin against Him. This was not unfolded from anthropoid apes, for it is not in them. Brutes are distinguished from plants by self-consciousness, and this was not developed from plants, for it is not in them. (3) Natural selection is self-contradictory and impos sible. Fifty years ago, Alfred Russel Wallace devised the scheme and wrote Charles Darwin about it. Mr. Darwin published the plan. He afterwards refers to Mr. Wallace as having “an innate genius for solving difficulties”. (Des cent,” p. 344.) Two years ago, Mr. Wallace, in an address at the Darwin anniversary, before the Royal Institution in London, referring to Professor Haeckel said: “These unavailing efforts seem to lead us to the irresist ible conclusion that beyond and above all terrestrial agencies, there is some great source of energy and guidance, which in unknown ways pervades every form of organized life, and which we ourselves are the ultimate and foreordained out come”. Thus an author of the theory, himself, admits the contra diction of claiming a “selection” and denying a selector. DISTRIBUTION The Darwinists assume that because certain creatures live now in limited areas, like the sloth in South America and
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