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From the Cincinnati Commercial

From the Cincinnati Commercial
GENEsIs-CHAPTER H.
.--'--..aTily the Unknowable moved Uppr
~0,i"o9 auu w. y protoplssm.
ANu PIOtOPiasm w. s-a-ranic aud uIf
uherentiated, containing all things in potentia
Energy and spirited evolution moved upou
the fluid mass
o. ana the Unknowable said, Let atoms At
tract anu their contact begat light. heat, and
I. And the UncOnditiOncd differentiated ,h,
atoms, and each AFTER its kind: and their con,
binations begat rock, air, and water.
o. And there went out spirit Of evoluti,,,
/ from the Unconditional, and working, in pr1
t0plasm, BY aeeretion and absorption produced
the organic cell.
6. And the cell by nutrition evolved plimor
dial germ, and germ developed prOtogene, and
prOtOgene begat cocoon, and cocoon beat
monad, and m0nad begat animalcule.
.. And aDimalcule begat ephemera; then be
gan creeping things to multiply on the face of
the earth.
/ s. And earthly atom in vegetable protopIasr
, begat the molecule, and thence came all graS,
and every herb inthe earth.
.. And animalcul9 in the water evolved
fins, tails, claws and scales; and IN the ale
wings and beaks, and on the land thew
sprOuted such organs as were necessary a,
prayed upon Dy the environment.
10. And by the aecrCtion anu a5sorptfor
came the radiata and msllus,a, and mOliusc,
bczat articulsta, and artieulata begat yerte
bEsta.
II, Now these arc the generation Of the
higher vertebrate, in the cosmic period. thai
the Enknowabls eyOluted The bipedal nam
malta.
y. And every man of the earth, while he
was yet monkey and the horse, while he
was hipparion, and the hipparion before be
was an oTedOn.
IS. Out of the asC5lian came the amphibiau
and begat the pentaaactyle; and the penta
dactyle, by inheritance and selection, produced
the hybolate, from which are the sfmiad.p in
all their tribes.
II. And out Of the siaiade the Iemur pre-
vailed above his fellows, and produced the
Platyrhine monkey.
10 And the platyrhiEe begat the,.,t The
rhine, and the eattarrhiDe mO1kif the Iongi-
aathroPoid ape, and the aPe bcSat the chin
In nnnoS ora1g and tihf6palzee evOIutOd tia
=; s.iI the what is it went into the land Of
Nod and took him a wife Of the lOngtmanOlts
sibSoBs.
II And in process of the cosmic period
we're born untG,them and their children the
primOrdiaE types.
Is: The hOmuDeulus, the pTognathus, the
trOglOdyte, the aUtOchthOa; the terragen-
.hese arc the generations Of primeYal man.
10. And pHmeyal man was naked and not
ashamed, but lived in quadrumanous limo
,enee, and struggled nightly to harmonic
With the environment.
ID. And by inheritance and natural selec-
ion did he progress from the stable and no
ingenious to the complex and Heterogeneous.
for the weakest died and the strongest grew
lnd multiplied.
81. And man grew a thumb for that he hal
iced Of it, and developed capacities for prey.
-. For, behold, the swiftest men caught
he most animals, and the Swiftest animals
sOt away from the most men; wherefore the
low animals were eaten and the slow mea
tarved to death.
%. And as types wePe differentiated the.
weaker types continually disappeared.
24. And the earth was filled with violence:
or man strove with man, and tribe with
rihe, whereby they killed off the weak and
oOlish aud secured the survival of the fittest-