The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-20

mOuS CuhuB6 WAlCu nus OcCuIIeu u
mems habits oil thinking since the my
thoppic age, when II first gained cuTrer
i cT The Hebrew writer, indeed, present
ug .YithA conctetep picture Of The creatio
OF mar, Accordingto which q homogeneou
clGy model 10 In some inconceiVable wa,
transmitted OF once into the wonderful,
heterogeneous combination OF organs AM
tissues and aptitudes OF which the Twin
man b made up. But all writers, eve
opponents Of the Darwlnian hypothesis
shrink from that notion, and take relug
In vague phrases about "Creatiye VIII
&c, mnch as y cuttlehsh extricates itsel
from q dlsagreeable predicament b,
hiding In q shower Of his own ink. Whei
translated from the dialect Of mythology
into hat 0i science he specials creatiDl
Hypothesis asserts That the Untold mil
lions Of organic molecules Of which man
NAL Is composed, oil rushed together q
some appointed instant from divers quar-
tiers, In virtue Of some divine sorcery
forming the infinite complicated nerves
ganglia, glands, intestines and blood yes
sells. BE who can believe that 81 Goar
Of TreYeB, tfansIorined sunbeam into
hal peggor nat rn1n once changed th0m
selves ID mefe-wolHss by putting % al
enchanted gtrdle, and that Joshua and
Cardinal Ximenes constrained the eartl
to pause In It's rotation, will find no diff
Guilty In 30 accounting for the existence o.
man 'of Ok Accordtng 10 he doctrine 0
detiValionlthe more complex plants ant
animals are the slowly modified descend
ants OF the less complex ones, and these
were the slowly modified descendants Of
the still less compile, 3 and 90 on until We
converge 10 those primitive orgenisms
which are definable either as Animal OF
vegetable, and 10 their lowest forms are
shreds Of jelly.like protoplasm. The
agencies by which this derivation ofhigh.
eF from lower forms has been effected
ore sgencies daily Worl lpg Around us, q
Individual variation, Adaptation toglCir-
cumStances, hereditary transmissions Of
individual peculiaritiee.
After these preliminary observations,
hr. Flske laid the basis Of the hypothesis
upon four, corper.sto es,-1hec lassihca-
hon of plants aid animal; hell Embfy&
ologs; Their Morphology, aud their BIZ
tribution In space and time. The first
point was illustrated by the analogy Of
language In which words which in their
highest asH Cop penf aPpeatedI qhtellted
same word. Words so unlike as pen and
feather were Traced back 10 q common
origin In the Old Aryan pat (flighO which
IN the Northern direction became. succssS
lively pata-tra, fath-tra, feaths III die
Southern direction became pat ma, pes ia.
pennd and pen 80 the French ldrtAe and
English tear were shown 10 be the same.
Such conveyance Of linguistic lines to
Was not put f6fWart IS tCstil
mUny % q similar derivialiunoi dissimi1
Lar. Ioths IRON q common anc estot, but az
indicating the way In which classified.
ton must be framed in all cases where
we have expressed complex generic rela.
With regard TO the races as
well as TO their Languages, and with re-
gard TO all other organisms, 1t is true that
wherever we find set OF objects arrang.
ed 10 groups within groups, converging
at the bottom and diyerging at the Top,
We have the siTolgest Prinla tqcie ground
Tor asserting hereditary relationship In
bis remarkable ASSAY on Classification"
Professor Aglsiiz (said Mr. FislSt) more
than atoned for certain metaphS steal alb
erraliUns by the conclusiveness with,
which he shows the impossibility Of NAL.
ing u classification OF animals in direct
lines. The only feasible classification Is
in branching lines, like the boughs and
tWiggs Of . tree. Having then stated the
classl fcatiln asagreed upon by men Of
science, Mr. Fhke pointed out that il
Showed every gfObptand sub group con-
Verging at the bottom, diyergiDg ut the
top OF tue scale, and such an arrangement,
IN any other hypothesis than derivation,
could only be regarded as a snare ior blu!
man intelligence. The old Mosaic geolo
siSts asserted that fossil plants and ami
mails were created already dead and pet
Tiae9 Just for the fun Of the thing. They
lake hPa similar position who pretend
that'God crested separately the horse,
ass, zebra and quagga, having previously
created beast enough like all of them
10 be their common ancestor. Mr.. Fiske
stated that early in 1859, before Darwip,s
Origin Of Species" was published. the
reading of Agassiz' " Classification y con.
Vinced him that some theory Of the de-
riviation would certainly be found true,
THE ARGUMENT FHOMl EsfBRYoLoaYs
In considering the argument from En-
brYology, Dir, Fiske described carefully
HE resemblances OF all animals Tdnrinr
tm!alde yelopmentt 1oWeruuesrth
respondence oil the successive stages of the
form in the egg and the succession Of
forms In the crust OF the earth; the fact
that none Of these emhryonal phases have
any adaptation q. Tie He oil tie aniIfial
after 1t Is born. This was followed bv a
confederation Of, the morphological rels-
tons ofdifefent formas Externally there
ittlefesemblance between the hand 8of
a man and the boot OF a horse; yet anato-
my shows the hoof made up of fingers
soldered together Arm, forelek, paddle,
wing, pectoral flo, are all developed from
the same embryonal rudiments, and are
srpotufelly IDENTICAL, We may, either
SaY Wilh the 1lhssulman sit 80 u ssedll
Allah, whose name be exalted or hon.
setly cknoBledgethat such community |
d strnclure proves community Of origin. |
With reference TO the geograph zeal dis. |
oil animals, the lecturer adducedI
! vast array OF facts showing that the lIv. |
pc animalsin each area resemble the en-, |
met ioFms q the same areass And man |
IRering those who explain ahis ,by taylns |
hat each species wa5in turn created IN |
Itrict adaptation to surrounding condi-
ions, 1t was shown that 30 far from this
'eing the Gaze the natfye plants and ami
mails Of q region were "a uently unable
o live beside imported ones. Cow grass,
hlstles, dock, and white clover flourish
more Vigoronsly lin New Zealand than in
england. and within few years have
Utmost displaced the native grasses; while
henatiye rats and flies are fast disap-
Fearing before the sTatstand flies Of Eusk
ope2 SMbreoVer, sthpugh the southefnex.
remities OF South iAtnericay Africa; and