The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-16
ORIGIN OF MAN vs.. DENTON.
Editor Bulletin :

ORIGIN OF MAN vs.. DENTON.
Editor Bulletin:
DEAR sIR---liaving attended and atten-
lively listened to the lectures OF Prof. Den.
ton on 1.-The Origin of Man, and viewing
in different light such subject, ! choose 10
take issue with him though having such un.
conference.-the facts rs revealed by the all
potent and most Interesting OF sciences.
s son, OF S s ii. to pr ,asn him in
well as having thorough educa.
ton and peculiar speciality Of being rhct.
oricai gymnast. one might consider himself
to begin rs placed AOys dc combat. yet.
like David armed with the
sling OF truth and PEBBLES of
conviction. dare face the Goliah of infdel.
ity. Viewing the subject IRON biblical
standpoint, hold that geology but reiterates
its aNioms and in no where does IL DENY or
contradict itself or geology OH the same, for
the six days mentioned In the bible no sta
ted data or number of hours can be conceded
or conceived. The Cantacles mention that
"a thousand years are as day in thy sight,
Lord aud through all the consccutives
ions of creation God proved himself ever
operative and by slow but progressive
formation OF strata upon strata, and age by
age, arrived at its present state, ga tit abode
for man. True, that In every strata higher
orders OF genera have been found. and each
linked by higher order Of beings which
the doctor chooses TO term
pointers as indeed they
are; for most pointedly and unerrnely they
indicate that nil creation is but the hat OF
one great creator, economical in his dstr-
button, as is all nature, following one course
OF formation until perfected in the most no.
bic of al, created beings, man, and by the
successive geological stems we find the prm.
evai seas inhabited by their protozoic myr-
Ia DIS, the fish Of the paleozoic age, and con.
m IN ia
their intervening epochs, are perfect in
their genera, each dissinar. though trace.
able. by anatomical similarity: vet nowhere
any fossil remains have been found bearing
any similarity to man until tins age. when
the ape, the only one which l think more
reasonable to suppose as retrogressye from
man, than his ancestral source. "And God
created man to his own image and like.
ness proposition at which the learned
gentleman laughs, Though in all honesty and
candor) Totally forgetting the :.old philosoph-
ic axiom of "nihil nihil fac" from nothing
nothing can come, commencing his discourse
with "ball OF lire, carefully emitting any
mention OF its origin, mot charging the doe
tor with kleptomania, its too hot them. he
hurries Onward In his argument and has the
azo,ic strata and primeval seas, as II already
there, denying an toto any origin of matter.
Yet as all in nature IL natural, and all things
natural Is matter. and as all things
natural had an origin. consequently SO with
matter. With the origin OF matter origin.
ated force, and, as one ofthe seven qualities
OF matter, Is indestructibility,to force and mat
ter BEN y co-existant, are consequently etcr.
nal. The forfeit the Dr's. arguments, In which
he most implicitly relies, Is that matter and
force are from eternity, that the laws govern.
Ing. matter govern life, as grayitation. co.
hesion, affinity, capitalization, modification,
seiecuon, variation, and metamOrphosis, all
OF which must necessarily be acceeded, as
every philosopher knows that the same laws
ana qualities belong to matter, whether or.
gained or inert, for In every quantity of the
accuinulative atoms of matter we have either
life or substance, that they have life or ori.
Hln Is equally as unquestionable as are the
laws OF nature, and II they by any power
coherent propagate their genera, 1t must be
either by eplEenisis or evolution. While es.
pousing the Harverian theory OF o,aaes rippD,
"a orOe give all the right aud liberty to think
that heat and moisture can produce life
without germ. The species Of both ami.
NAL and vegetable kingdoms, no matter how
proXimatc their line OF demarcation. sprino
from iecnndated Newfoundland germ
or egg, when placed In the conditi ms favor.
able TO their life, viz: heat, moisture and
oxygen. The experiment cited by the Dr..
OF suspending sage In boiling water and feed.
ing with chemically pure oxygen the germs.
every condition necessary to their develop.
inent IL afforded, and il is more surprising that
TWO should have failed out Of twenty odd
experiments made by Prof. Clarke Of Cam.
bridge. Hhnpplied with these, the essential |
conditions OF lie 10 organized bodies only, |
for ofthe sixty odd elements COMPOSING o,ir |
planet, no new compound can be formed. |
but at HE expense OF the existence Of those |
composing IL. WHEREAS, In tho animal and |
vegetable the germ Is given without any de. |
terment or diminntlon Of the parent source
III consequence OF their existence. or The |
many questions that have absorbed liz
minds of the philosophers, theologlan and
physioloSist, none 50 precautionary stsuIs
forward US that OF life, and still the wranals
Tor the honor between the continents coniin.
ues as TO whether DR.. Walters Of st, Louis.
or Or. Carpenter OF England, was the first To
say "oNygen,' its great supper. or and des.
troyer, necessarily both. For lille is the re,,l,
OF preceding death, Hf otherwise, one
could have no beefsteak or boiled cbons for
breakfast "Might making right" (the law
OF selection OF Darwin in all spheres OF life
anu beings, then, rs life is the result OF pre-.
cealng aealh, ,liose understanding the circll-
atlol OF The blood, the seton Of the nervous
systemas well as their relative, dependency
IN, ana reciprocal assistance to oach other
Fan easily understand the potent part Oxy,
gen plays IN burning the neuclea.heucIe.
ated white corpuscles Of the blood, to BIO ere
lied anu terminate ilsslperously formingn new
'nd from the proximate principles Of life or
compound OF organization for the nutriment
" the different parts Of the body, oxygen
icing then the source or life Of Bichat or
'nimal life, Is consequently the life OF ma.
ure, as all botanists Know, being inhaled Inv
,lants and giving of carbonic acid Gas. MS
loes the mamal, but conversely during day
nd night. This then Is the great vivider.
he great spirit Of nature and the God az
)anton! Which God may be generated at
vii by any school boy taking
Dual parts of chl0rate of not
sh and black oxide of n,anpanixc
nd heating them In common pop.bottle
YER spirit lamp. And this " the God oT
allure TO whom my talented friend would
y a successive graduation, the anatomical