WHY
I AM AN
AGNOSTIC.
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Huxley entered the lists for Darwin. No man ever had a sharper sword-a better shield. He challenged the world. The great theologians and the small scientists-those who had more courage than sense, accepted the chal!enge. Their poor bodies were carried away by their friends. Huxley had intelligence, industry, genius, and the courage to express his thought. He was absolutely loyal to what he thought was truth. Without prejudice and without life from the lowest TheoIogy looked Haeckel began
fear, he to the smaIler at the
foIlowed the footsteps of highest forms. still. simplest cell, went from
change to change-from form to form-followed the line of development, the path of life, until he reached the human race. It was all natural. There had been no interference from’without. I read the works of these great men-of many others-and became convinced that they were right, and that all the theologians-a11 the believers in ‘6 special creation ” were absolutely wrong. The Garden of Eden faded away, Adam and Eve fell back to dust, the snake crawled into the grass, and Jehovah became a miserable myth.