The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-01-11

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that they most unwillingly surrendered the
fruition of their unwonted feast.
Darwinism.
Giebel, German writer, and opponent OF
Darwin's theory, has given the following de-
scription of the system, which we have trans
lated for the benefit Of the readers OF the
Lutheran 1t answers in few lines the
question, "What ls Darwinism
"There must have been a time when only
single vertebrated animal lived. This ver-
tebratcd animal was, without doubt very
imperfect fish. 1t multiplied itself and peo-
pied all waters, but found in|the vicinity of
The sea coast, here muddy, there sandy and
at other places rocky bottoms; here still and
there violently agitated water, and in the
deep sea different food from that which 1T
found in shallow streams. This made it
necessary for the naked, soft and hcadless
fish in order not to perish in the "strugge
for existance" to furnish itself with head
and with organs Of sense, to change its soft
cartilaginous structurv into solid, bony
skeleton and to cover its naked skin with
scales or to dress itself in armor, or to pro-
vide itself with sting as its battle in lite
required In this wise, in the course ofvast
milliards of years, the defendants OF this
original fish produced the thousand-fold
forms of fishes that to-day iphahit 5ataf all saff
the fish did not remain in the water. Here
thoy we're cast upon the shore by a wave,
there by the retreat of the sea they were 'e't
on dry land, and thereby new struggle tor
existence became necessary. This also they
passed through successfully, as they charg,
ed their fins into legs with feet, instead u
gills to be dried by the air, they provided
themselves with lungs, and with the help OF
careful Mother Nature. appropriated to them-
selves everything necessary tor an enJoyaOlle
life upon the land. The battle was, accord
ing to the circumstances of the battlefield, a
varied fight, and accordingly ly the arminS ana
eouiping for it was various. The hsh that
remained in or near swamp was content to
assume the form of frog, and another one
crocodile, or a tortice, and those moving far
ther inland became lizards. Gradually an
excess of population spread over the land,
and out of this newly started "struggle tor
existance" some were delivered by climbing
trees, and they transmitted their climbing
capacity and organs to their posterlty. for
others, the labor of climbing from one tree
to another was too troublesome. They
therefore attempted to spring from tree to
tree, and practiced at this art so long that
their lees became birds and bats. But, fora
number of birds, flying became at length IN
convenient, therefore they remained on the
ground, or returned to the fishy element OF
their ancestors, and became running and
swimming birds. .,,
However exceedingly manifold and rcmoV-
ed beyond all human calculation, IN its very
delicate directions, this struggle tor exis
tauce" was, even so variously did the strug,
Cling ones develop themselves, until the tn,
hundreds and thousands Of animals, Win
the advent of the present order of the world
adapted themselves to all the possible condl'
tions of existence in which wenow find them
Now, however, nature has suspended her
breeding experiments, and man alone contln
ues them. first of all in relation to his own
race, and also with all the great and small
creations of unfettered nature. These, how
ever. contribute no new weapons towards the
"struegle for existauce," and that which can
not successfully pass through the struggle;
with the aid of those which it has received
from its ancestors, may miserably perish, toI
it has no right to live and perpetuate Itself
For this natural increase Of species: this ex
ceedinelv manifold equipment for the "strug
Gle for existence" and this adaptation to th'
most varied conditions of being, nature toos
an incalculable length of time, and lett II
each of the combatants q limitless measure o
it. The animal forms now living, hav
therefore employed in their development, no
six thousand, nor million, but counties
millions of years. In the general "struggl
, for existence" the gorillas and orang-outang
came into being, or at least their ancestors
At length, some of them were no longer sa,
t is6ed to live on trees. They descended
therefore, again to the ground, but not to D'
f come lions and tigers, or to eat grass In
? sheep and oxen, but hcnceforward to go fort
b and to apply their hands, now freed, to MOI
!. skillfull and more pcaceable employment, sue
g as O. more enjoyable life rendered necessar
l. As numbers Of original monkeys, on the Col
If trary, decided enemies of progress, RENAME ,1
v chimpanzees, and orang- g-outangs, and gorilla
h in the grade of animals; others struggled !.
e. to be men; of course, at first, with very dihe
ent pretensions to life from such as these
st the present generation have developed thel
.g selves up to-. Now, the natural increase