Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-04-19
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Last evening. Hon %. c6st6cey Burr, delived
tho laird lecture bg hiu eeaEap i9 the grand e,psn
Han efthe Ulaytoa Mouse. Sub3eef, "Ehe P-ele-
~ dShmencsd by defining the, Kingdoms ot
uhfnre. Minerais nte bodies aggregated, mot hv-
leg nor proceeding, having no organic structute.
Vegetables have organic structure but no mo-
dom Animals have oil. Tha physical globe -
aErAaged IN strata-Aso with ell the kingdoms ot
nature The anitA1 kingdom proceeds from t,o
lowest monAd TO arirnals and man, who te az the
suHhmit Of the ladder. Luinceus says "NesNra
plliIos saltHs facifal.e. "Nature makes no leaps.
There is no line OF lemarcation between the sew
eral kipRdoms they inaensibly blend and merge.
into each other. celebrated painter made one
hundred figures and placed them in room each
wassO like 10 its Immediate neighbor that one
could not be distinguished at the fret glance. he
commenced with The lowest specimen Of polypO
and ended with tbe frog-thtls Illustrating Vlvidiy
that nature makes no leaps. Nan is on the sum-
mt OF the ladder and the series imperceptibly de-
scends to the frog. The system Of steps is imper-
ceptible. One ihvariable law Of nature is, theIe
10 no genus soith only stn1ls spefes. Instance
Felinep, the common Cat, tbs Lynx Tiger, Lion,
LeOpard--it is absurd TO suppose that these sx
species eminatsd from single pair. The genius
Saaatills, from one Of which man coed learn les
SON IN navigation (the Pearl NaWtSlWs) contains
thirtv-six spacias--one genus of univalve COM
prises one hundred species, In the genus spe,
there are forty species ranging from the little bra-
lillian Marmozet 10 the gigantic Duran Outang
and Gorilla, Who dare say that the horse, ass
and zebra are the defendants Of q single pair--
Since this is 90, Why should nature depart from
. her fixed unalterAblS rule and make only one spe-
4 cios TO her Qrankest and noba3t goaus, nan we
must give up All we know Of science, give up Cav
Ter, give up IAnnaus, OF admit plurality OF spe-
oios The osasous and mIe alar systems are quite
distinct in the i've races of men as in the other
animAls-in the Caucasian, Red, African, squi-
maux and AfFican. The negro is adapted to- trop
zeal climates coat OF fat protects his feet against
| the burning sands Of Africa. This is not found
in any other race Several species OF shoes have
been invented with double sOles separated BY 9
layer OF air, but in vain-Nature has given th'
PiR" an nfalible protection against the solar ray
which she has pot furnished TO the other races
Secondly the African skin contains two Iamtnae
1lhers only one betWeeR these are myriads O
minute vessels filled with pellucid water, which
acka A. dew on grass TO protect him frcm the huTu
I mo solar raw 1hirdAthe hair or wool of the At
rican iS yaIoryiOgs 70 lba collar tay he ean sleeI
fCR honrs q tas epn waere ten minutes q expos ,
1 Chimpanxsb and Gorilla haSP 2 dlstinct oseeou
syStam, and 10 have the ave fueeS a. man. VII,
limit the genus man 70 one speciese The Rtb'
teaches the imnIutability Of species Genesis say
sseVeRy thing should hriug forth aiter us kind. :
The Bible also teaches that the greatest crime o
the ancient world was the smingling Of diferen
races and fofmng Of hybrid people. foE that IL tn
true meaning AZ de Hehrew words Darwin at
tempts to improve on this BY his theory OF th
ftFahsmdtation Of species. 1ds hypothesis onl
i pushaa back the creative act Bisbops HRrwel
saws il does not get Sd Of the dil0aity for he ha
still 90 start with Life, II everything grove spoI
! taneously krpm OmhTyo buds Hybrid progency
tinvasaaliy stEipped 6f fecundity, and all order
y aradistingpished hy climates. How can vertebra
Itabe dsteiopod nom 'HOn1teFtebfatas mollusc
from radinkd 16s0h MOma QAbss &C., such step
equal 70 q new creation. (HeES be quoted Kan
and Bishop WhewelI onorgAnized sYstems,l Som
lpaVaeos VIXEN they behela u the hands Of uave
I fefs Sono oompleE RntomAta, Thought that the
4 Vfens men. no argument is dsdneed from this
. onIy shoEs that come races are very low. tn
NtpndencV Of change is 10 deteriorate and not
SITnpuoae speeiea, Skeletons Of dogs in EgYptia
: Pvrdmids idlluatrata Ibis. The eminent Dost'
Richards recAnted his thsQry before death, that
: 4 snontausitv extSts 10 SatuT6. ahsTe & On aby
; hi fgeen. it ana sny iptblllSibte beginning fo
| which all the theories Of DarwiD and Hunley tH
> to Rceount. aUi.afal.fV y i ~. .+.