have not met their particular tenets, or have overlooked some special or later writer. It does not seem necessary to take up separately each modified form of Evolution, because all of its modifications, which are about as numerous as the writers on the subject, have the fundamental errors of Evolution in general within, though the errors may be more deeply hidden or the theory more tactfully presented. As theories they are but different tentacles of the same invertebrate.
The Use Of The Theory Of Evolution.
Greater liberty of thought has been claimed in behalf of Evolution, but as we see its developments, the character of knowledge it offers, and the conclusions to which it finally leads, we can not fail to observe that it imposes a mental bondage more disastrous than that of the religionists of the past. It is more disastrous, because the bonds imposed by religious dogma were capable of being broken, as they are to-day; but the fetters of agnosticism in regard to all things higher than what appeals to the senses, we are told, can never be removed, because the First Cause must be forever wrapped in the darkness of "total ignorance"; "and the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes
