ck to Moses and takes Christian ground. Geology
does not teach that species have been evolved from lower species. Geology
declares that new forms are new expressions of creative power. All the
physical forces that were operating upon our earth in the inorganic
period, are in operation now. Why, O why, has it been that the experience
and observation of the ages, as well as the record in the rocks, have
failed to give, in all the earth, one sensible demonstration in support of
the proposition that man, or any other species, was evolved from an
inferior species? The answer is easy--blind physical forces were, and are,
insufficient to bring into existence living being. Throughout every
department of creation there are evidences of invisible or spiritual
powers that lie behind the events that come under observation in science.
Chemical affinity lies behind, and produces important changes that take
place in organic matter. But chemical affinities do not explain living,
organic, being; for we have our existence at the expense of chemical
affinities. The living force, whatever it may be, lies behind chemical
affinities, and controls them. Instinct influences many of the
manifestations in animal life, and intelligence controls the sober conduct
of men. Yet above all these there is that wonderful builder and overseer
of the organism called life. As nature was perfect in all her elementary
principles during the inorganic period, and as inertia was, and is, a
property of matter, it follows, necessarily, that life was a new
principle, from an immaterial source, otherwise inertia is not a property
of matter; for a thing can not be--exist and not be at the same time.

Vogt reasons in favor of evolution of species from a few abnormal--that is
deteriorated--human beings, which is the mistake spoken of by Agassiz, that
action and reaction in one and the same species produce species. Action
and reaction does not produce the species, nor yet _another species_. Men
and apes have lived side by side for thousands of years. Why is it that
apes have made no advance towards the human form? Poor fellows! An ape is
always an ape, and a man is always a man. The geological record upon the
rocks is in favor of man's existence as man by creative interposition. The
evolution hypothesis rests its conclusions upon effects that well-known
causes have never been known to produce, for the evolution of species from
lower species was never known anywhere in his