The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1874-12-30
THE NEW SCRIPTURES. ACCORDING TO TYNDALL
HUXLEY, SPENCER, AND DARWIN.
Genesis, chapter ii.

for the Scriptures OF Iypdal d Co.-ED. y. PRES
THE NEW SCRIPTURES. ACCORDING TO TYNDALL
HUXLEY, SPENCER, AND DARWIN.
Genesis, chapter ii.
l. Primarily the UnknowablS moved upon cos
mos and evolved prOtoplssm,
,. Aud protoplasm wfs int yanig and uudifier
entiste0, 5.I-.-sus al II ene tia energy
and 81 ,rit Of evolutit ~ "a CON the A0id
mass.
3. And the Unknowabe said Let atoms at
tract and their CONTACT be light, heat and cleo
tric!ty.
And the Uuconditoned differentiated the
atoms, each after its kind and their combinations
begat rock, air, and water.
5 And there went out spirit of evolution from
the Unconditioned, and working 10 protoplasm by
accretion and absorption, pro iuced the or anic cell
6. Aud cell by nutrition evolved prlmOdlal germ
and germ developed protoeene; and protOgone be
gat cocoon, and cocoon begst monad, and monsd
begat animalcule.
I. And animulcule begat ephemera; then began
creeping things to multiply on the face OF the earth
8. And earthly atom IN vegetable protoplasm he
gat the molecule and thence came all grass and
every herb 10 the earth.
9. And aDimacu &c 10 the water evolved fms,
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 environ
ment.
10. Ard by accretion and absorption came the
radiata aud mollusca, and mousea begat articu.
lata and articulsta begat vertebrate.
IL. Now these are the generation Of the higher
vertebrate, in the cosmlc period that the Unknow.
able evouted the biptdal mammala.
II. And every man OF the earth, while he was
yet monkey, and the horse while he was hip.
parton, and the hippaTion before he was an oredon
Ouf ~ tho IN the am m hi hian nd
begat the pentadactye; and the pentadsctyle by
inheritance and selection produced the hylobate,
from which are the simiade Tor monkey in all
their tribes.
IA. And out of the smade the lemur prevailed
above his fellows and produced the platyrhine
monkey.
Is. And the platyrhine begat the catarrbine, and
the catarrhiue monkey begat the anthropOid ape,
and the ape begat the longimanous orang, aud the
orang begat the chimpanzee, and the chlmpaI zee
evolved the-what.is-t?
l6 And the what-is-it went into the land of Nod
and took him wife of ,he longimanous gibbons.
IT, And in process OF the cOsmic period were
born unto them and their children the anthropo.
mophic primordial types.
Is The homunoulus, the proauathus, the frog.
odyte, the autochtbon, the terragen-these are the
generations OF primeval man.
49, And primeval man was naked and not asham
60, Out HVeu III quAuIuUauOuS lunOcence, auu
struggled nightly to harmonic with the environ
ment
20 And by Inheritance and natural selection did
he progress from the ne al homogeneous to
the complex ana hetert aeoni: for the weakest
died and the strongest grew and multiplied
81. And man grew thumb for that he had need
of It, and developed capacities for prey
% For, behold, the Swiftest men caught the
most animals, and the swftest animals got away
from the most men; wherefore the slow animals
were eaten and the slow men starved to death.
% And as types were differentiated the weaker
types continually disappeared.
"a And the earth-sRA6iled with violence; for
man strove with man, aud tribe with tribe, where
by they killed off the weak and foolish, and secured
the survival of the fttest.