Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-30
NO. 277.
MistellameoMs.
THE NEW SCRIPTURES.
GENESIS-CHAPTER II.


1. Primarily the Unknowable moved
2. And protoplasm was inorganic and
undifferentiated, containing all things in
potential energy and spirit of evolution
moved upon the fluid mass.
3. And the Unknowable said, Let
atoms attract; and their contact begat
light heat, and electricity
4. And the Unconditiened differen-
tiated the atoms. each after its kind; and
their combinations begat rock, air, and
water.
D. And there went out spirit of evo-
| luton from the Unconditioned, and work
ing in protoplasm. by accretion and alb
| sorption produced the organic cell.
6. And cell by nutrition evolved prm-
ordial germ, and germ developed proto-
gene; and protogene besat cocoon, and
cocoon begat monad, and monad begat
anmalcue.
Z. And animalcule begat ephemera;
then began creeping things to multiply on
the face of the earth.
8. And earthly atom in vegetable pro-
| toplasm begat the molecule, and thence
came all grass and every herb in the
| earth.
9. And animalcule in the water
evolved fins, tails, claws, and scales; and
in the air wings and beaks; and on the
land they sprouted such organs as were
necessary rs played upon by the environ
ment.
| 10. And by accretion and absorption
came the radiata and molusca, and mol
lusca begat articulata, and articulata be-
gat vertebrate.
II. Now these are the generation of
the higher vertebrate, in the cosmic period
that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal
mammalia.
! Il. And every man of the earth. while
he was yet a monkey, and the horse while
he was hipparion, and the hipparion be-
fore he was an oredon.
| 13. Out of the ascidian came the am
phiban and begat the pentadactyle; and
the pentadactye by inheritance and se-
lection produced the hylobate. from which
are the smiade in all their tribes.
| II. And out of the simiade the lemur
prevailed above his fellows ana produced
I the platyrhine monkey.
10. And the platyrhne begat the
| catarrhne, and the catarrhine monkey be-
gat the anthropoid ape, and the ape begat
the longimanous orang, and the orang be-
gat the chimpanzee, and the chimpanzee
evoluted the what-is-it.
16. And the what-is-it went into the
land OF Nod and took him a wife of the
longimanous gibbons.
II. And in process of the cosmic period
were born unto them and their children
the autbropomorphic primordial types.
Is. The homunculus, the prognathus,
the troglodyte, the autochthon, the terra
gen-these are the generations of pri-
mcvai man.
10. And primeval man was naked and
| not ashamed, but lived in quadrumanous
| innocense, and struggled nightly to har-
| monize with the environment.
20. And by inheritance and natural Sc
lection did he progress from the stable
| and homogeneous to the complex and
| heterogeneous-for the weakest died and
the strongest grew and multiplied
2l. And man grew a thumb for that he
had need of it, and developed capacities
for prey.
| y. For, behold, the swittest men
caught the most animals, and the swiftest
animals got away from the most men :;
wherefore the slow animals were eaten
| and the slow men starved 10 DEATH
23 And as types were differentiated
the weaker types continually disappeared
"a. And the earth was filled with vio-
lence; for man stroye with man, and tribe
with tribe, whereby they killed off the
weak and foolish and secured the survival
OF the tittest Cincinnati Commercial.