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ACCORDING TO TYNDALL, HUXLEY, sFENcEF
AND DARWIN.
CENESIs-CIAPTER II.

Cincinnati Commercial
GENEsIs-cHAPTER II.
|. Primarily the Unknowable moved
upon cosmos and evolved protoplasm.
,. And protoplasm was inorganic and
undiferentiated, containing all things in
potential energy and a spirit Of evolution
moved upon the fluid mass.
3. And the UnknOwable said, Let atoms
attract and their contact begat light, heat
and electricity.
I. And the Unconditional differentiated
the atoms, each after its kind and their com
binations begat rock, air and water.
5. And there went out spirit of ey0lu-
ton from the Ineonditoned, and working in
protoplasm, by accretion and absorption,
produced the organic cell,
6. And cell by nutrition evolved 'primor-
dial germ, and germ developed protogene,
and protogene begat cocoon, and cocoon be-
| gat monad, and mOnad begat animalcule
( :. And animalcule begat ephemera then
began creeping things to multiply on the
face of the earth.
$. And ear by atom in vegetable pro:o-
plasm begat the molcule, and thence came
all grass and herb in the earth.
.. And animalcule in the water evolved
fins, tails. claws and scales and in the air
wings and beaks ami on the land they
sprouted such organs As were necessary as
played upon by the environment.
10. And BY accretion and absorption
came the radiata and mollusca, and mol
lusca begat articulata, and articulata begat
vertebrata
H. Now these are the generation of the
higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period
that the UnknOwable eyoluued the bipelal
mammalia.
T. And every man Of the earth, while
he was Vet a monkey, and the horse while he
was hipparion. and the hipparion before he
was an ored1n.
Is. Olt Of the asciiian came the amphib-
ian and besat the pentadactylc: and the
pentadactyle by Inheritance and selection
produced the hylobate, from which are the
simiad;e in all their tribes
Il. And out Of the simiadH the lemur
prevailed above his fellows and produced the
platyrhine monkey.
ljr And the platyrhine begat the ca
tarrhinc, and the catarrhine monkey begat
the anthropoid ape, and the ape begat the
longimanous orang, and the orang begat the
chimpanzee, and the chimplnzee eyolutsd the
what-is-ii.
IL. And the wha;-is-it went into the
land Of Nod and took him 4 wife Of the lon
gimanons gibbons.
l.. And in this process Of cosmic period
were born into them and their children the
anthroqomorphic primordial types.
l.. The homunculuS, the prognathus,
the trogledyte, the autochthon, the terragen
these are the generations Of prineyal
man.
H. And primeyal man was naked and
not ashamed. but lived in quadrumanaus
innocence. and struggled nightly to harmon
ize with the environment.
%. And by Inheritance and nata al Sc
lection did he progress from the stable and
homogeneous TO the complex and heterogene-
ous-ior the weakest died and the strongest
grew and multiplied
2l And man grew thumb for that he
had need Of it, and developed capacities for
prey.
- For. behold, the swiftes. man caught
the most animals. and the swiitest cnimals
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 gradually disappeared.
u. And the earth was filed with Vi
olcnce; for man strove with man. and tribe
with tribe, whereby they killed off the weak
and foolish and secured the survival Of the