The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-10-14
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DAETTEN IaEPRUVED.

Darwinism Is a mere ape ology for sciq
ence. That's what it Is. And IFS nc
new thing under the sun II has beer
presented in great variety Of forms BY
all the authors of childrcn's primers. fr,a-
Mother Goose TO Edward Lear For IT,
stance, witness the following ancient ex-
position of it;
g ne monkey married the babcons sister,
SInacked his lips and then he kissed her,
ssed 80 hard ne raised a blister
She sot up yell.''
This is a touching incident in the beau
tiful process Of transition from worm to
Wallace-fru:n dirt to Darwin. The in
termarriaee between correlated families
the reciprocal attachment so interesting TO
The thoughtful mind the pathetic prellm-
mary of osculation; : the cuticular accident
OF yescication; his fervency her coy af-
tectalicn of dlsp!easure-all, all point
with unerring finger TO the mysterious orr
gin and solemn destiny of man Again,
observe the continuance of this resem-
blance, as shown in the same familiar
poem:
"Bridegroom stuck on some court plaster;
Suck so fast it couldn't stick faster;
Q, it vas a sad disaster
But it soon got we'll"
Here you are again. These De human
passions, affections, Affections. We see
the praiseworthy soIicitude of the bride
groom the faithful constancy of the
court rtplaster and behind all, cunningly
suggested rather than stated, the uncom~
planning patience cf the young wife Then
Tie slow recovery. But we must not
linger:
"W hat dye think the bride was drest in
White gauze veil anG-green glass bre2stpns
She did look quite nterestn:
She quite belle"
The scene is changed. The cohesieo
emolient has been removed ftom the sa-
luted Up The bride. though of Simian
origin, belrays the divine symbol of her
sex-the taste for decoration. She rob
her lovely form in transparent gossamar,
revealing by conceaiing. She orpaments
her undulatiug bust with a sapphire gaud
just the way they do now Is it not
sufficiently obvious that the author of this
understood the great principle of natural
selection and the survival of the fshtisJ.
as it IS now explained by Darwin, Hux-
ley and the rest?
But, on arriving az the blunt termina-.
lion of the affecting stanzas, it occurred
TO Us that they were incomplete-that
they were, as ii were, rudime utary-sO.
we handed them over to our ingenious
Office boy to finish according TO the evolu-
ton theory. He pulled up his shirt col
lar, rolled up his eyes and his sleeves,
sPasmodically seized sheet of paper, and
wended his winding way along after the
following fashion
What d. you think occurred soon arter2
Fmst son and then darter
And they Kept growing smarter
'Cordin to the law.
Lost their tails and found their knowledge;
Put on clothes and went to college,
Studied science and coolidge
Wagged classic Jaw.
One remembered his 'poor relation"
Then he printed a narration,
All about his derivation
From his grandmamma.
Thus much the boy. Then he tainted
dead away, like Prof. John TyndalI, f.
L S, when he surmounted the highest
peak of the Matterhorn. We dragged
the youth TO the sink and sprinkled him
with the water the ''forms'' had bathcd
IN, and he sadly opened his eyes. GLOW
are you ?" said we. To-which vehement
Iy the lad replied: "Walter Whitman
amt no poet. He never caught nothin'
from the Muses. 'cept the St. Vitus's
dance. We let him warble on, seeing
that his mind was wandering. But hero
are our subsequent meditations: "Dar-
win is right The book of nature is now
nerspicuous We are what we are, be-
cause the monkey married the baboou's
sister"