The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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348 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
if, as Dr. Young asserts, man "belongs to the class-
Mammalia; to the order— Bimana; to the genus —
Homo/' etc., and traces his ancestry to a "speechless"
ape, the Old Testament teaching
that man was created
in the "image of God," and that the animals were made
after their kind, is disproven and should
be repudiated.
And if
the Mosaic Record which Moses wrote was false,
we could not with propriety accept anything
else that he
wrote as true.
Hence, consistency would require that all
the writings of Moses be repudiated. These include not
only the Narrative of Creation, but those of the Fall and
the Deluge, the raising up of the Israelites as God's
"chosen people" and their history up to the time of their
entry into Canaan ; the laws which God gave them for
their government, together with the establishment of the
Jewish Church, and the observance of the Sabbath. With
these all disproven and repudiated, the Old Testament
would be practically destroyed. Besides, all the Old
Testament writers accepted and endorsed the writings of
Moses. Hence, consistency would require that their
writings should also be repudiated.
no Old Testament at all.
We would then have
We have traced
the Theory of Development to
the sacred registers of ancient Egypt, and have shown
that it was taught in the centuries preceding the