, 1873-12-21
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tho ,,lo1,o. MINT p,nt. Arn..,y m'y,l l,yo
t1ouo If lo I'm Il liyoa 10 prounro tin et,,,ran or
lccturoH w1icl, ,1o lind plauncl for Tim r,ouori
wtutor. wo 81, all uoyor kuow, Ono Of lin latont
recorded tic, 1rhta was n rorrot lint lin uc.f
raco Of aciou tints seemed tn bo rnnunu nrtcr
theorlos III stand nj nat;ont1v invosti,,ot.
inr Naturo md intornrot;nt, hor ,yortlu.
principat D,wgou docs not bolour tn thia
now raco. w;hu aro ouraretl in ntl,]int, I'm t,o
gaps" bot,Ycs,n tic car-piko md the human
annnl. On tho contrary, lo l,ua oxpoged frcsb
cups, Which, 1t ;s utmost safe to gay uoycr eau be
filled, aud lt Inns aow,, pretty concl,,uyoly TINT
tho Evolusic,niHts, although thoy hayo added
much to sci sntilc knowledge, and lnye traced
many rcmac xablo reHemblauceB that lad boen
unnoticcd E.oforo, havo not yet established ono
fact to provt, that ono kind Of animal existence
has ever bee d, developed out Of auotLor kind.
It ia ra':ifying, III we'll as novel, to road al
attack OH tlle Darwinan school from really
sciontiho standpoint. Most commonly euch at-
tack6 nre directed from some theological
ambush, md, however successful thoy mav
appear to theologians themselves, are not
understood by Bcientists. aud are SOL
dom or never answered by them. Mr..
Dawson. though belonging to tho orthodoxy
himself, l,olds tho EyolutioniBts III higher
oateom than "thoso who would adyise III to
hand over reason and conscience to the despotio
authority Of falliblo 1uon dressed In strange
garbB and callctl by sacred namca." Iu combat-
ing Darw!u, Huxley, 1Tiyart, Wallace, etc., ho
gets down with them into the dirt, among the
shollB, btnlos, foot-prints, and leaf-prints Of
loug-bur Il agc1 aud approves himself D
thorough master of tho subjoct-no imitator, no
auntour no cram,nor Of other mems discoveries,
but cure.fu1 uuiustafng original Investigator
Although l,o gives us numoroun toxts Of serjn.
49, - -, 49,, - ~
turo,-sI 'uet nloio pcFn'ls tu"n necessaTst-ho
1seyer oirt,rs oneas substitute for NIL argument.
He Inns measured the Larrentian rocIs OF North
A,norlca, the Oldest strati1cd seriea on the
globo, and ho finds them to be not leas than six
mics in thiclsueBs. The enormous lapse Of time
tint mus t hayo boon employed in denositine tic
Laurent M group fof whicl, tho rocks of the
saguona5 and the Adirondack Mountains aro n
partl. in tho form Of silt six miles doom in tho
ocean be d, can he but faintly conceived He has
traced tho pedigree Of more than q 1undrod va
riotjes IT molluBky, from the Porniau period
dow, to tic prcsout time, aud has found not tho
slightest; indication Of d toudency to doyeton-
ment fr,m q lower to higher organism. Ho
bus pors o,,ally examined tho eayc anl gravel d.
poaits o., France. tho laho Villages of switzor-
innd TIN k;tc],on-middops of Donmar1, nnd t1,e
fo,nouR Enohis shutl thu o11ost crn,,i,,m known
to gciopco which uo finds to bo ntril,inrlv li1;o
the skulls of the Algonquin Indians of Canada
indicating TINT tho man WHO carried
tho En-, mis- skull on his shoulders was no nearer
tic mn, ,l1au aomo rneos Of mon still exiHtent
He leas made tho coal-mcasures of
Noya Scotia u ypecIal gtrtly. and has discovered
coc,rosches and spjdora like our presont domes-
tic ne.;a wero abundant in tho Carbouiforous
naro tt il ntorcstin,, tn noto1 1oro l,ia oninjons
Of tno ,,rl;n of emil ia th;n1,s ttoro en-, bo M
donl,t .lnf II coraisto1 or;rino,tv If noot.hooa
md ct,,h.n,ouuou ,,,,on Wild, oro,r foroaia Of
sc;11o in md I, ,on;i1odordrona. PIN woot1v f,hyo
NJ tho tn trooh cnntrhutod l;tt1o ~ notCin,, n
tha oo., tt,,,o,, I'm .t,,n,,,. no fo,, l., ,Eroot
nu,n,e ~ i, t1,o Observation-Disclosures oora +o,otlor
viii ,:ho rr;n,s ~ t,o;r 1aavoa tr,,,1:s mi
root. IN I'm aurfooo If +ho nm, 1rho coo1
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