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Of recent years, when Evolution has felt a crying need amidst dearth of facts, some distinguished scientist has reported a startling discovery promising the missing link; and others have been quick to herald the claim that now Evolution has found the factor which will restore the lost cause. We may expect that the resources of Materialists will be exhaustless in this respect. But it must ever be the case that the facts will, as in the past, be proved fallacious when subjected to competent and unprejudiced examination, and that the deductions will fail.

Since the theory of Evolution defaults so fundamentally, it is not necessary to consider at much length the laws of Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest that are used to help it out. These laws nullify themselves when applied to the derivation of one species from another, and render it impossible, if such laws were in existence, for a higher form ever to have survived. Sufficient evidence of this exists alone in one general principle asserted by Evolutionists themselves; namely, that the nearer to unorganized matter a thing is, the more suited it is