The two kinds of truth : a test of all theories with special application to those of creation, instinct, and immortality, and showing evolution to be a natural, not a universal, truth / by T.E.S.T., an old life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

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1890
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Credit: The two kinds of truth : a test of all theories with special application to those of creation, instinct, and immortality, and showing evolution to be a natural, not a universal, truth / by T.E.S.T., an old life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Husbandry of Heaven ! 1 He created nothing else, but at His Word Dust brought forth the whole Vegetable and the organic Animal Kingdoms, each individual thereof endowed with the Germ of its own exclusive existence, for reproduction in con- tinuation. Man was the only direct workmanship of His hands. And Man He made of the Dust also. There is a remarkable difference here. Every other creature He created by a word. So Shakespeare reminds us— “ What a piece of work is a Man ! How noble in Reason ! . . . The paragon of animals ! . . . this quintessence of Dusty 1 Again, Animal Life was called out of Dust, and Instinct is an endowment of Life, both being Natural facts ; but the Mind of Man was not so, but was a direct emanation from his Maker, and so a spiritual or Universal fact. Hence the distinction we have so much insisted upon: Instinct and Mind are incommen- surable. It thus appears that physically Animals and Man are alike com- posed of Dust, and although not of the same creation, yet of the same Creator, and formed after the same typical plan—the same typically, and yet how essentially different ! As we have already said, His plan is typically perfect, and further illustrates the Hus- bandry in Heaven. For it seems clear that God only made Two Creations in the strict sense of that word : ist, Dust; 2nd, Man —physically and mentally One, and the only one Rational Crea- tion. This consideration largely explains the misconception which the great similarity in the frames of some Mammals and that of Man has given rise to, and more especially in their state of embryo. Nor does it contradict the truths of Evolution in the Animal World, limited within fixed boundaries. We may not think this history probably true. It certainly could not have been written till long after the event, and, when so written, must have been obtained from an old legend. But it 1 “ Hamlet,” act ii. sc. 2.