The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-12-26
THE NEW SCRIPTURES,
According To Ty ndaIl, Huxley, Spencer, ANA
Darwin.
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tgrom the Cincinnati, CommcrcalJ
GENEsIs-CHAPT. |.

(grom the Cincinnati Commercial
GENEsIs-CHAPT l.
I. Primarily the Unknowable moved upon
cosmos and evolved prOtoplasm.
.. And protoplasm was inorganic and IN
! differentiated, containing all things in polen.
tia energy; aud spirit Of evolution moved
! upon the tuld mass.
3. And the Unknowublc said, Let atoms At.
| tract; and their coLtuct bogat light, heat and
electricity.
! 4. Ald the Unconditoncd differentiated
the atoms, each after its kind and their com.
binutions begat rock, air, and water.
J. And there went a spirit OF evolution from
the Unconditional, and, working in pro,o-
plasm, by accrcion and absorption produced
the organic cell.
6. And cell by nutrition evolved primordial
germ, and germ developed protogcne; and
protogenc begat cocoon; and cocoon bcgat
monad. and monad begat animalcule.
7. And animalculc begat ephemera; then
began creeping things TO nul,iply on the face
of the earth.
8. And earthly atom In vegetable protoplasm
begat The moleculc, aud thence came all grass
and oyery herb in the earth.
o. And animalcule in the waterevnlyed fins,
tails, claws, and scales; and in the air wings
and beaks and on the land they sproated
such organs as were necessary rs played upon
by the environment.
10. And by accretIon and absorption came
the radiata and mollusca, aud mollusca be-
gat articulata, and articulata begat vertebrate.
II. Now these are the generation Of the
higher vertebrate, in the cosmic period tina,
the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal man.
malta;
IL. And every man Of the earth, while he
was vet monkey and the horse while he
was n hipparion and the hipparlon before he
was an oredon.
10. Gu. of the ascdian came the amphib.
ian and begat the pentadactyle; and the pen
tadactyle by ihcritance andn selection pro
duced the hylobatc, from which are the sim
adm in all their tribes.
a. And out of the simiad9 the lenur pre-.
vailed above his fclowsand produced the
plaiyrhinc monkey.
Is. And the platyrhine bcgat the catarrhinc,
and the catarrhine monkey begat the anthro-
poid ape, and the ape begat the longimanous
orang, and the orang begat the chimpanzee,
and the chimpaszee cvolutcd the what.iS-t.
lG. And the whats-it went into the land OF
Nod and took him wife OF the longimanous
gibbons
Il. And III process of the cosmic period
were born unto them and their children the
anihropOmorphic primordial types.
Is. The homonculus, the prognathus, the
troglodytc. the autochthon, the tarragcn-
these are the generations of prime, nj man.
10. And primeyal man was naked and not
ashamed, 6u, lived in qurdrumanous limo
cence, and struggled nightly 10 harmonic
with the environment
90. And by inheritance and natural selec.
ton did he progress from the stable and ho.
mogeneous to the complex and Heterogeneous
for the weakest died and the strongest grew
and multiplied.
II. And man grew a thumb for that he had
need of It, aud developed capacity for prey.
-. For, behold, the swiitest men caught
the most animals and the swi.test animals got
away from the most men; wherefore the slow
animals were eaten aud the slow men starved
To death.
90. And as types were differentiated the
weaker types continually disappeared.
"a And the earth was filled with violence
for man sroye with man, and tribe witAtribc,
whereby they killed off the weak and foolish,
and secured the survival of the fttcst.