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The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature by Thomas Henry Huxley
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and Mr. Gladstone's order--

3. Land-population;
2. Air-population;
1. Water-population;

can by no means be made to coincide. As a matter of fact, then,
the statement so confidently put forward turns out to be devoid
of foundation and in direct contradiction of the evidence at
present at our disposal.<3>

If, stepping beyond that which may be learned from the facts of
the successive appearance of the forms of animal life upon the
surface of the globe, in so far as they are yet made known to us
by natural science, we apply our reasoning faculties to the task
of finding out what those observed facts mean, the present
conclusions of the interpreters of nature appear to be no less
directly in conflict with those of the latest interpreter
of Genesis.

Mr. Gladstone appears to admit that there is some truth in the
doctrine of evolution, and indeed places it under very
high patronage.


I contend that evolution in its highest form has not been a
thing heretofore unknown to history, to philosophy, or to
theology. I contend that it was before the mind of Saint Paul
when he taught that in the fulness of time God sent forth His
Son, and of Eusebius when he wrote the "Preparation for the
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