Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-12-16
THE NEW SCRIPTURES.

The Cincinnati Commercial gives
the following new reading of chapter
one of Genesis, according to recent
scientific explorations:
|. Primarily the Unknowable moved
upon cosmos and evolved proto-
plasm.
2. And protoplasm was inorganic
and undifferentiated, containing all
things i'm potential energy and II spirit
| of evolution moved upon the fluid
| mass. srftr 4gfI Itsttit
3. And the Unknowable said Let
atoms attract; and theircontact begat
! light, heat and electricity.
4. And the Unconditioned differen-
tiated the atoms, each after its kind;
and their combinations begat rock, air
and water.
S. And there went out spirit of ev-
olution from the Unconditioned, and
working in protoplasm, by accretion
and absorptioiI, produced the organic
cell. te.... .ct... .... tu,
6. And cell, by nutrition, evolved
primordiral germ, and germ developed
protogene; and protogene begat cocoon
and cocoon begat monad; and monad
begat animalcul@.
Z. And animalucule begat ephem-
era; then began creeping things TO
multiply on the face of the earth.
8. And earthly atom in vegetable
| prOtopiasm begat the molecula, anu
| thence came all grasses and every
| herb in the earth.
9. And animalcula 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 as played upon by the
| environment. ~ ftr.Fts.a8E.
10. And by accrction and absorption
came the radiata and mOllusca; and
mollusca begat articulata and articu-
lata begat vertebrate. ao0
IL. Now these are the generations
of the higher vertebrate in the cosm c
period that the Unknowable evolved
the bipedal mammalia.
| ~. And every man on the earth,
while he was yet a monkey; and the
horse while he was a hipparion, and
the hipparian before he was an ore
don.
13. Out of the ascidian came the
amphibian and begat pentadactyle;
hand the pentadactyle by inheritance
and selection produced the hylobate,
from which are the simiad@ in all
their tribes, y A y "a .F
IA. And out of the simiad@ the lo-
mur prevailed above his fellows and
produced the platyrhine monkey.
Is. And the platyrhine begat the
catarrhine, and the catarrhine mon
key begat the anthropoid ape, and the
ape begat the longimanous orang, and
the orang begat the chimpanzee, and
the chimpanzee evolved the what
is-it.
| l6. And the what-is-it went into the
land of Nod and took him wife of the
logimanous gibbons.
II. And in the process of the cosmoC
period were born unto them and theil
children the anthropomorphic primor
dial types.
IS. The homunculus, the progna
thus, the troglodyte and the autoch
thon, the terragen-these are the gen
erations of primeval man. o4
10. And primeval man was nake'
and not ashamed, but lived in quadru
manous innocence, and struggled
nightly to harmonize with the ehvl
ronment. .,,5
20. And by Inheritance and natura
, selection did he progress from the sta
BILE and homogeneous to the comple1
and heterogeneOus-for the Weakes
died and the strongest grew and mul
Q tiplied.
! q. And man grew thumb for tha
! he had need of it, and developed capaC
/ tiles for prey.
%. For, behold, the swlltest me
caught the most animals, and the swift
+ est animals cot away from the mos
men; wherefore the slow animals wer