The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-05-23

t9aHv tnAt ol ege, the original germ must BIZ
minute copy Of the infant. From the germ
70 me adult man there was no increase h
completely, there was only increase In di,
mansions. AS q necessary consequence
tne germs OF each generation were con-
lalned within tho germs Of the next pre-
ceding generation; so that Ia Mother EVE
were contained tho miniature originals Of
!ne entire human race, completely shaped
IN every feature, and shut up ono within
another like q series Of Chinese boxes"
TIE TEACHINGS OF COMPARATIVE ANAT-
oMY. frI
The facts Of morpholcgy or similarity
o. structure, have an equally significant
bearing. All animals belonging 10 tho
great sub'kingdom tertebrdtd are anato-
mlcally constructed upon the same gen.
eral plan. All are formed with a
doreal bonY axis composed Of vertebrae
hexi6ly linked together. All have
4 series Of nerve plexI extending through
tnls vetteoral column, the anterior ex-
uemity Of which Is more or less enlarged
and contains the brain and great nerve
ganglia. all have four limbs, which are
nomologous parts, either fully developed
az IN mammals, birds, fishes aud the
higher reptiles, or In an abotted or rudi-
mentary condition, as In serpents, The
delicate hand Of man, the coarse paw Of
the lion, tho elegant wing Of the hum
ming bird, and the broad flspper Of the
dolphin are made on the same pattern,
and In theembryo cannot DO distinguished
apart. The hand Of a man and the hoot
OF horse do not present much external
resemblance, yet when anatomically ex-
smined, the latter Is found to consist Of
I'VE dlgtts soldered together. II now we
urn to the lower forms Of lilo we find
that the same principle obtains,
THE PECULIAR sTRuoTUE OF INSECTS.
Says Mr.. Spencer: "Under the i'm
mensely varied forms Of insects, greatly |
elongated like the dragon fly, or contract. |
cd In shape like the ladybird, winged |
IKE the butterfly, or wingless like the tlga,
we find this character in common-there
arc primarily twenty segments. This Is
not all. II has been shown that the same
number OF segments Is possessed by all the
CrustGcea. The highly consolidated crab,
ana the Equilla, with its long, loosely
Iolnted divisions, are composed OF tho
same number OF somites. What, now, can
be the meaning Of this community OF
structure among these hundreds Of thou.
sands OF species filling the air, burrowing
in the earth, swimming In the water,
creeping about among the sea.weed, and
having such enormous differences OF size,
outline and substance, as that no COM
munity would DO suspected between
them? Why, under tho down.coy-
cred body Of the moth, and under
tho hard wiDgcaseS OF the beetle,
should there be discovered tho same Il
number Of divisions as In the calcsreous
framework OF the lobsterG 1t cannot be
BY chance that there exist Just twenty
segmenis In all these hundreds of thou.
sands OF species There Is no reason to
think II was Necessary, in the sense
that no other number would have made
3 possible organism. And to say that 1t
g tue result Oh ded9n-to say that the
Creator followed this pattern throughout,
merely Tor the purpose Of maintaining
the pattern-is 10 assign motive which,
II avowed by human being we shonld
call whimsical. No rational interpreta.
lion of this and hosts OF like morpho.
logical truths, can be given except by the
hypothesis oil evolution; and from the by
polhesis Of evolution they are corolla-
'ies." | might also mention that the
rare deviations from this pattern which !
ire occasionally found, preclude the idea !
ot predetermined type of structure,
while they are perfectly consistent with
The theory oil evolution. In fact we seem
o DO narrowed down to two alternatives.
We may either say with the deyout Mus. !
i1lman, ut so pleased Allah, whose
name DO exalted" or we may acknowl-
edge that these facts Of community Of
structure certainly indicate community
81 origin. AN Evo1uT1oN1sT.