Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30

when to doubt
As to the Certainty OF our ancestors being apes ana
having Tails there Is a doubt.
The Idea that our ancestors bein0 apes Is Prepos-
ferrous in the extreme. There Is no authorization
for IL, and the thought that our Progenitors had
Tails is redicuouse.
The Gentleman wants to know where his Projine-
tory deverged from the Catarhine stock Of animals
We win say, for his comfort I'm Jordan tby
Jercho) Is the only Place left on Record where an
Animal used Language. peculiar to Human Beings,
he will And it In the 22nd chapt Of Numbers, ZSth
Verse, And the Lord opened the mouth OF the ASS,
and she Spakr. W. U. ".
Berrien Springs. Michigan.
How glad we are out here to know
that Darwin has been demolished and
how easily it was done, too 1t only re-
NAMED for W. G. W. to come down upon
him with his ponderous say so, and 1t
was accomplished.
We in this mining region. who have
to dig and delye for our bread, come
across many curious things and, OF
course, have our pet theories in relation
to the causes which produced them, and
the time which it took to produce all
these funny things
We now learn from W.. G. w that
Adam was not a monkey; this we were
undecided about before.
We learn that "animals and BIRDS
build their houses and nests, just rs they
did on the earliest dawn of creation
This is quite new to US as we supposed
there were no animals or birds to do any.
thing of the kind at that time, but that
the creation of animal life began with
the lowest order, say Radiates; next,
the .Uolusks, q somewhat higher type.
Next in order are Articulates still
higher order, and these possessed of
scarcely m ore than stomach.
Next we find an animal with stom-
ach and vertebrae, (ishies) and from
these two all animals are formed. Next
come reptiles, one more advance. Now
comes decided improvement on the
last, and we call them Mammals, and as
these suckle their young they come near,
est to the human family, and include the
aforesaid monkey Next is the ago Of
the animal (man) and this brings us to
the vital question whether the monkey
is the progcnitor of man or not.
We poor miners think the above is
about the order of things from what we
see, not from what we read. We read
but little, and have never seen either OF
Darwin's books and as we can't quite
+. follow up the creation in the rocks, we
embrace this theory, viz:
That the animal man was superior
being to the monkey, and Consequently
came last. ''And the Lorti God formed
man out of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostris' the breath OF
life and man became living soul.
This we believe for the Bible says so.
But the process of formation is not Civ
en-. and whether man was formed from
the dust directly, or descended from
some other animals thus formed the BIZ
bic saith not, nor does it say whether or
no there was lhpse Of time between
this formation and the time when God
breathed into mans nostrils the breath
of life.
t, Now we think this breathing into
mans nostrils the breath of life. was
when God endowed the animal (man)
with everlasting life, and made him a
rational being; 1. e., made man a living
soul We don't think God breathed into
the nostrils of a dead man, but live ami
nal, and the change was, adding an
eternal existence to the dying soul then
possessed by this animal, man. "The
: soul Of the nan goeth upward, hut the
soul of the beast goeth down ward.
We prefer to consider Adam race
rather than, q man or one individual
IN this way we help Cam get wife
s Taking his Wv. &. VS. idea OF it, we
make the human race, even after this
srea. change, still mere animal, for
you ohlige him TO marry his sister
4 which is decidedly monkeyish.
= e W. G.. w. will try an experiment
he viii convince himself (and he need
not own to anybody else unless he wishes
to, u that it is not necessary for God tC
make special creation of every living
, thing, but having made certain laws
which are immutable, creation goes or
. Just as He first intended it; and we de-
, tract nothing from His power to say thai
c the lower order was created first, and 10y
! progression illuminated in the creation
of man.
Now take common goblet and fill i
D three iourths full os distilled water; take
: piece Of ine muslin and tie tightly ovel
this so that no animal life can enter the
" water; place this away in the sun, anc
: he will be surprised to find in few