To-night I have put forward some strong things, which so far Mr. Bradlaugh has entirely failed to answer. Perhaps, here, I may refer to his allusions to the discovery of human remains said to belong to times anterior to our own race. I would simply say that the discovery of such remains, even granting all that is claimed for them, would not be anything against the Bible because it is a teaching of the Bible that there was a race on the earth preceding the chaos which prevailed 6,000 years ago, at the time Adam appears on the scene. Our own race cannot be carried farther back than the Bible puts it. It is a simple mathematical calculation.
Population increases at a known rate.
Reckon the rate backwards and you cannot carry the present farther back than the time of Noah. With regard to prophecy, I have produced the case of the Jews, and the case of the corrupt ecclesiasticism of Europe. One particular illustration I will refer to, though involving the symbols which brings the jeer to Mr. Bradlaugh's lips. Daniel saw in a vision a goat and ram with two horns, representing the empires of Persia and Greece, as the angel showing the vision told Daniel. The goat, representing Greece, had a great horn, which was broken in the encounter with the ram, and from the great horn there sprang up four smaller horns.