The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-16
DARW INIsN1.

The New York Tribune shows signs of d
conversion to Darwinism. We have no
fault to find herewith. Every person
should be ready for conversion to any side
whatever that shows the strongest evil
dence, and should be equally prepared to
lean towards the best light as he under
stands 1t, even where the case may not be
clear, as the sunHower follows the sun,
though it may be hidden by clouds. The
Tribune furnishes the development theory
with some strong arguments by publishing
letter from New Haven concerning dis
coveries by Professor Marsh In the Rocky
Mountains and great basins of that region.
The Professor is himself an advocate of the
doctrine of the successive evolution of spe-
cies of animals of more perfect form from
predecessors of less perfection, until from
small beginnings the creatures now on the
earth have come into being. Professor
Marshs discoveries give us remains of
strange and wonderful animals, birds and
reptiles, exceeding in cccentricity the drag
ons and ficnds of fiction, and which
swarmed in that western country at a pc
| Rod so antique that the time of Abraham
goes so little further back in comparison
than single revolution of the hands of a
clock as to seem but trihe longer ago.
The Rocky Mountain region was once
covered by the sea. After emerging there
from the low places were subsequently oc-
cupied by lakes of fresh water, and these
situations are now dry basins. When that
part of the continent was lifted out of the
sea these basins were placed where they
now are, several thousand feet above the
| level of the ocean. Before this elevation
the ocean swept over all this continent,
from the Gulf of Mexico to the arctic re-
gions. Cold as those regions are now they
were then tropical In this warm sea
swan sea-serpents from baby size of ten
feet long to the respectable length of
seventy-fivc feet. They had limbs and
paddles and plates. They did not use
china or delf plates, such as we use, but
bone plates.
Professor Marsh also found the remains
of pterodactyls, a kind of bat with goose 5
head and spread of wings of twenty-five
feet. 1t could not carry off child, be-
cause there were no children then.
| Some bones were found out there, also,
of bird or reptile, or g what is it," like
| that which made tracks in the Connecticut
valley. Professor Marshs discovery,
however, was only fifteen feet high, as he
fortune Barnum lost by not living in that
age
The Professor also found bird with
fishs teeth and fish's back bone, borrowed
for some special occasion, doubtless, and
not returned. But it is put down as the
connecting link, or one of the rounds of
the ladder by which the fish assembled to
the form of bird.
The Professor found remains of the d.
noceras, related both TO the elephant and
rhinOcerOs, and nearly equal to the former
in size. 1t was ahead of Barnum's five
horned sheep, for it had six horns, besides
enormous tusks extending downward like
a couple of pickaxes.
BY the professors discoveries the horse
has been traced back to an animal of SINH
lar skeleton, not much larger than fox,
and with four toes. 1t reminds one of the
Irishman's gun, which had been in his pos
session ever since It was apistol. Another
ancestor of the horse, with three toes, was
found. All these toes touched the ground.
Another of his ancestors had one toe like
the present horse, and two little ones be-
sides, something like The rudimcnts of toes
of the deer and OK.
There were mosquitoes, f1eas and bed
bugs in those ancient days, and some of
them larger than exist in our day
Monkeys were found by the professor,
but not equal in the scale of being to the
modern style. The Darwinians like that.
They say it shows steps from lower to
higher. That may bc, but they have not
found the link between the ape and the
man yet.
The professor found remains of the ele-
plant kind, and some camels and rhinOce-
roses in the same beds.
AS to Darwin's theory, Professor Agas-
siz repndates it, and as the question is SO
largely scientific, 1t cannot be regarded as
settled while scientists wage war over the
bearings of their own observations.
A strong witness against Darwin has
been found in cave in Italy He cannot
write out his testimony, because he has
been dead about five hundred thousand
years, probably. He is fossil man, be-
longing to the stone age, but instead of be-
ing connecting link between a monkey
and man, is as fair specimen of man
as the average of our day. When re-
spectacle witness as old as the fossil Man
of Mentone is unearthed 1t begins to look
like serious business for the Darwin men
to keep up their side of the controversy. -