contrast? We are told that _life itself_ is a group of co-ordinated functions. But what correllates that force? It is very common for the advocates of the evolution hypothesis to measure the period between this and the origin of life by the phrase, "Millions and millions of years." The only object that such writers have in view in so doing is to bridge the gulf between the _assumed_ origin of life and mind and the evidence necessary to its establishment as a fact in science. They tell us that "life is a property which certain elements of matter exhibit when united in a special form under special conditions." But when we ask them to give us those certain elements of matter, they immediately inform us that "matter has about sixty-three elements; that each element has special properties, and that these elements admit of an _infinite variety of combinations_, each combination having peculiar properties." This, as a fort, is a stand behind the dark, impenetrable curtain of an _infinite variety of combinations_. It is just as dark and as destitute of proof as any pope's assumed infallibility. Mr. Haeckel says: "As a matter of course, to the _infinite varieties_ presented by the organic forms and vital phenomena in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, correspond an equally _infinite variety_ of chemical composition in the protoplasm. The most minute homogeneous constituents of this life substance, the protoplasm molecules, must in their chemical composition present an _infinite number_ of extremely delicate gradations and variations. According to the plastic theory recently advanced (?) the great variety of vital phenomena is the consequence of the _infinitely delicate_ chemical difference in the composition of protoplasm, the sole active life substance." What a multitude of infinities. But then, an _infinite number_, and an _infinite variety_ of _infinitely delicate_ gradations and variations, with millions and millions of years, do not remove further from sight life in its origin than does the materialistic philosophy of one substance. They constitute the _web_ and _filling_ of the _blanket of oblivion_ used by materialistic doctors to cover up their ignorance of life and its origin. A half dozen "INFINITIES," and "MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF YEARS!" What! should I care if my ancestors were "tadpoles," when they are HID AWAY IN THE CENTER OF INFINITIES, and laid _away back yonder_, so far off as "MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF YEARS?" When we ask our friends for the proof necessary to establish this speculation as a fact among facts, they find it very convenient to betake themselves to _infinities_, and _millions_ and _millions of years_.