Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-10

and no dOor-this was the reading of the
demon of doubt. Science today Is trans
lating the same words. Her reading was:
"In the beginning was the POWER" She
had tried the rocks in her crucible, she had
sounded the dceps of the sea and the doeps
Of the sky and found everywhere beyond
the veil of phenomena vast, unlnowablo
Power She scans now the finer forces
and harmonios of nature and finds over
toppingall other forces Will. Her unknown
Power then Is personality. Tho energy
of that VIII she finds perennial, and her
reading now is "In the beginning was the
Creator" in the beginning and HoW. "The
Father worketh hitherto" Deity in Great
ing comes not in the pomp of Cherubm
and Seraphim. He comes not in the fever
cd spasm but in the rythmic pulse. lie
comes in the still. small voice, i'm the silent
ministries of air and light, and he comes
today. If we could have looked down in
to the primeval ocean, we might have seen
nothing more than Wyman saw when his
animalcules were created in the flask.
In what forms did life begin? So far as
we know, the animal whose print Logan
found in the Canada rock was the first ere
ated being. We call it "Eozoon,' animal
of the dawn. A Swede has found in rocks
of the same age the print of a plant. SO
far as we know that was the first plant.
We call it "Eophyton,' plant of the dawn.
The Professor said that we could see how
the foundations of the vegetable kingdom
were laid, if we would look at the little
plants that grow on dead fly in stagnant
water. lie drew the plant ON the black board
and by ii he drew the Eophyton. We
could see how the foundations of the ami
nal kingdoms were laid if we took'a hand
full of mud from the bottom of stagnant
pond. We should find in it little animals
that look like drops of glue. We call them
Proteans. The Proteus has no limbs, no
head, no mouth, no organs. Itisa creature
of abnegations. The Eozoon was large
| Proteus.
Eozoon and Eophyton represented life
only, without plan. Above the animalcular
world the kingdoms of life rose on four
master plans. The speaker sketched these
plans and showed that the highest plan cul-
minated in man. Every animal that ever
lived if it rose above the rank of a Prote-
us, was made on one of these plans. Ev-
cry intelligent being throughout the uni
verse, the speaker believed, is the highest
expression of the vertebrate and is a man
Below the Infinite we cannot conceive o
anything higher in rank than man. He
meant woman. He thought she was a lit
tie higher. Nature taught him this by
analogies. A few weeks ago he rambleC
through the woods and found the oak trees
putting forth male flowers. The fow o
sap was weak, but it cost only littl'
warmth, only a little sap to form malt
fl lowers. Today be had been in the wood
again. The oak in every root, leaf, and fl
bie thrilled with life, and the tree today il
putting forth female flowers. The spruce
bears male cones on the weak branches, ie
male cones on the strong ones. This Law
runs through the vegetable kingdom AM
appears in the animal kingdom as vel
The queen bee lays an egg in every eel
All the eggs are alike. Then the workin
bee creeps over the comb and says 'froT
this cell we must have a woman bee, and I
make woman nature wants Il G richie
spoil the flowers can yield. Into these eel
I'll put the choicest bee bread" 1t Greer
on and says, from these cells we wal
IN an bees who are drOues, and to make
drOne, who is a man, nature wants only
little wax. Into the cells | will put the re
use of the hive" The queen bee is mac
of honey distilled from thousand flower
The male bee is made Of wax. lie woul
toss that crumb of science to the Ne
Hampshire Woman Suffrage Society. II
would have nothing more to say on II
woman question. The speaker then sketcl
ed the forms in which lite was first embot
led on the four patterns. Life began in IL
oceans. He described the earliest livin
things and showed how they were pre-
phetic of the living forms. The world i
that gray dawn was a world only of germ
N. II. Telegraph.