Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
GENESIS, CHAPTER III.
According to Tyndall, Huxley and Darwin.


According to TyndalI, Huxley and Darwin
1. Primarily1he Unkfowable moved
npon cosmos and protoplasm.
2. And protoplasm was inorganic and
undifferentiated, containing all things
il potential energy; and spirit of evo-
luton moved upon the fluid mass.
3. And the <Unknowable said, "Let
atoms attract; and their contact begat
light, heat and electricity"
ID And the Unconditional differen-
tiated the atoms, and after it's kind; and
their combinations begat rock, air and
water. o.,
{ 5. And there went out spirit of evo-
lution from the Unconditional, and
worked in protoplasm, by accretion and
absorption produced the organic cell.
6. And the cell by nutrition evolved
primordinal germ, and the germ devel-
oped protozoa; and protocol begat CO.
zoon, and cocoon begat monad, and
monad begat animalcule.
Z. And animalcule begat ephemera;
then began creeping things to multiply
on the face of the earth.
8. And earthly atom in vegetable
protoplasm begat the molecule, and
thence came all grass and every herb In
the earth.
8. And animalcule in the water evolv-
ed fins, tails, claws and scales; and in
the all wings and beaks, and on the
land they sprouted such organs as were
necessary as played upon bv the envi-
ronment.
10. And by secretion and absorption
came the radiata and mollusca, and mol
lusca begat articulata, and articulata be-
gat vertebrates. H..a
II. Now these are the generations of
the higher vertebrate, III the cosmic
period that the Unknowable evoluted
the bipedal mammalla.
IL. And every man of the earth,
while he was yet monkey, and the
horse while he was hipparion, and
the hipparion before he was an oredon.
Ii. Out of the as ,idian came the am
phibian and begat the pentadactyl;
and the pentadactyl by inheritance and
selection produced the hylobate, from
which are the simirde in all their
tribes.
IA. And out of the simirdm the Lemur
prevailed above his fellows and produced
the platyrhine monkey. .....{
Is Aud the platyrhine begat the cat
airline; and the catarrhine monkey be-
gat the anthropoid ape, and the ape
begat the longlmanous Orang, and the
orang begat the chimpanzee, and the
chimpanzee evoluted the what-is-it.
16. And the what-is-it went into the
land of Nod, and took him a wife of the
longimanous gibbons. i
II. And III, process of the cosmic
period were born unto them and their
children the anthropomorphic primer
dial types. dc 49,.
j Is. The homunculus, the prognathus,
the troglodyte, the autochton, the ter
ragon; these are the generations of
primeval man. ..5.t ... b..
10. And primeval man was naked and
not ashamed, but lived in quadruman-
Gus innocence, and struggled nightly
to harmonic eth it's environment.
20. And by inheritance and natural
selection did he progress from the stable
and homogeneous to the complex and
heterogeneous; for the weakest died,
and the strongest grew and multiplied.
81. And man grew thumb for that
he had need of it, and developed capaci-
ties for prey
%. For, behold, the swiftest men
caught the most animals, and the swift
est animals got away from the N ost
men; wherefore the slow animals were
eaten, and the slow men starved to
death.
%. And as types were differentiated
the weaker types continually disap-
peared. ~,
"a. And the earth was filled with vio-
lence; for man strove with man, and
tribe with tribe, whereby they killed off
the weak and foolish and secured the
survival of the fittest.