Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-08
THE NEW SCRIPTURES,
According TO Tyndall, Huxley,
Spencer and Darwin.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

| From the Cincinnati Commercial.I
GENEsIs-CHAPTER II.
|. Primarily the Unknowable moved
| upon c,1smes and envolved protoplasm.
2. An protoplasm was inorganic and
undiffere utiated, containing all things
on potential energy; and a spirit of evo.
luton NOV ed upon the fluid mass.
8. And the Unknowable said, Let at
oms attract; and their contact begat
light, heat and electricity.
4. And the Unconditional differentia-
ted the atoms, each after its kind and
their combinati ons begat rock, air and
water.
s. And there went out spirit of evo.
luton from the Uncouditi oned, and
working in protoplasm, by aecretion and
absorption produced the organic cell.
6. And the cell by nutrition evolved
primordial germ, and germ developed
protogene, and protogene beget cocoon,
and cocoon begat monad, and monad be-
gat animalcule.
I. And animalcule begat ephemera;
then began creeping things to multiply
on the face of the earth.
s. And earthly atom in vegetable pro-
toplasm begat the molecule, and thence
came all grass and every herb in the
earth.
g. And animalcula in the water
evolved fins, tails, claws and scales; and
in the air wings and beaks; and on the
land they sprouted such organs as were
necessary as played upon by the envi-
| ronment.
TO- And by accreation and absorption
came the radiata and mollusca, and mol
lusca begat articulata, and articulata
begat vertebrate.
IL. Now these are the generation of
the higher vertebrate, in the cosmic
period, that the Unknowable evoluted
the bipedal mammalia.
~. And every man of the earth, while
he was yet monkey, and the horse
while he was a hipparion, and the hip
parton before he was an oredon.
l3. Out of the ascidian came the am
phibian, and begat the pentadactyle;
and the pentadactyle, by inheritance and
selection, produced the hylobate, from
which are the simide in all their tribes.
IA. And out of the simiade the lemur
prevailed above his fellows and produced
the platyrhine monkey.
l5 And the platyrhine begat the cat
tarrhine, and the cattarrhine monkey
begat the anthropoid ape, and the ape
begat the longimanons orang, and the
orang begat the ehimpAnzee, and the
chimpanzee evoluted the what is it.
l6. And the what is it went into the
land of Nod and took him wife of the
lonOimanous pihhons
II. And in process of the cosmic pc
riod were born unto them and their chill
dren the anthropomorphis primordial
types.
Is. The homunculus, the prognathus,
the troglodite, the autochthon, the terra
gen-these are the generations of rri-
meval man.
10. And the primeval man was naked
and not ashamed, but lived in quadruma.
nous innocence, and struggled nightly
to harmonize with the environment.
20. And by inheritance and natural
selection did the progress from the stable
and homogeneous to the complete and
heterogeneous-for the weakest died and
the strongest grew and multiplied.
81. And man grew a thumb for that he
had need of it, and developed capacities
for prey.
%. For, behold, the swiftest man
caught the most animals, and the swift
est animals got away from the most men;
wherefore the slow animals were eaten
and the slow men starved to death.
%. And as types we're differentiated
the weaker types continually disap-
peared. .,
"a. And the earth was filed with vio-
lence; for man stroVe with man, and
tribe with tribe, whereby they killed Of
the weak and foolish and secured the
survival of the fittest