Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
Wallace, Natural Selection, 338—“The average cranial capacity of
the lowest savage is probably not less than five-sixths of that of
the highest civilized races, while the brain of the anthropoid
apes scarcely amounts to one-third of that of man, in both cases
taking the average; or the proportions may be represented by the
following figures: anthropoid apes, 10; savages, 26; civilized
man, 32.” _Ibid._, 360—“The inference I would draw from this class
of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the
development of man in a definite direction and for a special
purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and
vegetable forms.... The controlling action of a higher
intelligence is a necessary part of the laws of nature, just as
the action of all surrounding organisms is one of the agencies in
organic development,—else the laws which govern the material
universe are insufficient for the production of man.” Sir Wm.
Thompson: “That man could be evolved out of inferior animals is
the wildest dream of materialism, a pure assumption which offends
me alike by its folly and by its arrogance.” Hartmann, in his
Anthropoid Apes, 302-306, while not despairing of “the possibility
of discovering the true link between the world of man and
mammals,” declares that “that purely hypothetical being, the
common ancestor of man and apes, is still to be found,” and that
“man cannot have descended from any of the fossil species which
have hitherto come to our notice, nor yet from any of the species
of apes now extant.” See Dana, Amer. Journ. Science and Arts,
1876:251, and Geology, 603, 604; Lotze, Mikrokosmos, vol. I, bk.
3, chap. 1; Mivart, Genesis of Species, 202-222, 259-307, Man and
Apes, 88, 149-192, Lessons from Nature, 128-242, 280-301, The Cat.
and Encyclop. Britannica, art.: Apes; Quatrefages, Natural History
of Man, 64-87; Bp. Temple, Bampton Lect., 1884:161-189; Dawson,
Story of the Earth and Man, 321-329; Duke of Argyll, Primeval Man,
38-75; Asa Gray, Natural Science and Religion; Schmid, Theories of
Darwin, 115-140; Carpenter, Mental Physiology, 59; McIlvaine,
Wisdom of Holy Scripture, 55-86; Bible Commentary, 1:43;
Martensen, Dogmatics, 136; LeConte, in Princeton Rev., Nov.
1878:776-803; Zöckler, Urgeschichte, 81-105; Shedd, Dogm. Theol.,
1:499-515. Also, see this Compendium, pages 392, 393.
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