Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-19

u OF early daysG VIII We 20 on ennl-
| mating God out Of everything2 Elimi-
Mating duty, moral responsibility and
hard-hsted toll, until we prove that the
primal curse was a myth. A new sys-
tenn Of creation is already formulated,
and after little we shall have a totally
new and improved edition ofthe 81 Book"
based upon scientific fact. And instead
1 of Moses we shall have Spencer or Tyn-
dali. The billie OF the coming day Of
light will have g beginning something
like this:
TYsDALL's GENESIS.
Great Is: Electricity Of the Scieytists.
In the beginning electricity produced
the heavens and the earth.
For before that matter was ''sOrt o.
void,D which being interpreted means
nebulous haze; and the spirit Of electri-
| city moved through the shapeless mass.
And electricity said, or more properly
speaking, blindly and Of necessity NOV
ed to make light, and loi light was made.
| And the original cause, electricity,
saw or felt the light and aequiesced; and
hence light rom obscurity was defer
entialed.
And the ancient cause, or electricity, i'm
pressed the notion Of day upon light, but
upon darkness he implanted the charae-
teristic Of night, and the beginning Of
time was thus established. The first
morning and the first evening conse-
quently followed.
But electricity went on Disseminating,
and the issue was that there came an iu-
terval or "firmsment" in the midst Of
the original fluids, and then the waters
were divided from the waters.
- Al. n
the fluids, gases and matters winch ad.
hered to the primary nebulOus mass went
with 1t, but the fluids which were
sloughed of by centrifugal whiEling and
attached themselves to the earth were
separated, and hence the waters which
were under the armament, being sepa-
rated by certain space nom the waters
which were above the armament, the
two waters were thus divided; and il
was so.
And electricity evolved q new idea,
and called the armament heaven. AND
the evening and the morning marked
the passage Of another revolution Of the
earth upon its axle.
And electricity took another notion,
and went on gathering the waters into
one place apart; and thus exposed some
OF the uncovered ribs OF the earth,
primary rock and some other hardened
crystals Of that early time. And it
was 80.
And electricity evolved once More,
and another idea hsd being, and the dry
land or bare ribs aforementioned was |
called earth, and the agglOmOratiOn of
fluids was called seas. And electricity |
felt satisfied that it was good.
There was then another movement of |
electricity and IT went on jeferentiating, |
and producing thereby grass and herbs |
furnished with suitable apparatus for re- |
production, commonly called seeds; and |
also fruit-trees aud nut-trees and sugar |
cane, perhaps, and ferns and century !
plants, and various floral wonders. And /
1t was so.
And the earth being thus Differentiated, |
produced and brought forth all these !
things by the scientific power of cleo /
tricity; and electricity saw that it was /
good.
And the evening and the morning of /
third revolution Of the earth upon its
axle succeeded.
And electricity still Differentiated, and |
the signs and lights in the heavens be-
came visible as distinct from the slaugh-
ter Of matter Of which this glObulOus
map IL formed, and those signs and
lights in the armament marked the pro-
eession Of the hours and days, and the
months and the seasons. And it was So
In the process Of now rapidly acting
differentiation, the two great lights Of
the heavens became more p8lpable, and
the lesser lights, though greater bodies,
called stars, became visible through the
fog. And it was so.
Then electricity Differentiated whales,
and maekereI, and crabs, aud Holsters,
and oysters, and devil-fi5h in the bosom
Of the great deep, 50 that 10 the order OF /,
evolution fishes came after grass and
hickorynuts, and are of later origin.
d. Monkeys followed founders and cat
fish, and also all the classes of land ami
mails and birds; they came still later, and
electricity rejoiced. BY this time sever Il
al days had passed, and things had
ripened for the evolution of man, and
forth he came in due season, with all I
the marvellous genesis upon him, and
Tor the first time there was self-cOn-
seriousness upon the earth, for electricity
had Differentiated intelligence out Of the
nebulous haze; and man laughed, and (
slectricity was much pleased at this
work, for laugh had been wrought out
If the old fog. Then the stars sang
lymn of nebulous Joy, and electricity
Ilept for s season, until he was reused
up and tortured ia all sorts Of unhlisl
ways by his own sou man, who became
master, and cursed his progenitorfoFn not
having done things better.
This Is the first chapter of a new bible I
according to the scientists. You know l
hat the teachers, both on this continent II
Ind In Europe, are now sueering at the
whole system of religion, and the chris
ian world, with the exception of |
he Catholic church, is offering 10
ocular methodical disciplined force TO j
oppose the inundation Of unbelief. A S
eW days ago l saw % clip - Ia one Of
he papers giving the ideas OF some sd
Tocate Of common schools, which ideas i
we're insulting to what he called the :
sectaries," because those sectarias are
rumbling about the lack of religious
eaching in schools. When God ia ban
shed from the schools, what is to pre-
'ent the devil from taking possession?
J. n
Shall the Negroes be Edueateds
EDITORS APPEAL-The public school 2
ystem Of the city OF Memphis is thet
bsorbing theme at present, and which 1 \ 5
m surprised to see the APPEAL sup
oring. have tried to be q good eiti-
en- OF Memphis, where l have resided :
yer since year before the war closed
nd have been q constant reader Of YOUR 9
aper since it returned TO the city from
3 wiid-goose chase over the southern y
tates. am In favor Of a system Of ed
cation where these who pay the taxes
ct the benefits. The white people pay =
le taxes, and therefore the white peo-
lie should not be deprived OF the public =
shooI system. The United States an. l
lorities have made special legislation
n the benefit Of the negro ever since ]
leir emancipatiOn-in fact,a bill for the !,
special benefit of the negro is now
ending in congress, Whieh embodies
lore privileges than have ever been de- =.
landed or guaranteed to the white man.
Why cannot the government, instead Of -
yfRS- to enforce such Objectionable r
leasures rs the civil rights bill, make
me special provision for the eduea-
on of the negro population, to which :,
lere certainly could not be so much OBJ .
elton. am opposed to the education J..
one race entirely at the expense
another, and as | said before, 40 not pc
sieve the APPEAL has done wisely rs
ehampioning such outrageous mea- ch
res. / bad hoped that one Of the AL
eat reforms that would result from !
Ie success OF the Democratic party =
Id | believe that the idea drew ~
any q voter from the Republican J
nks TO the support Of the Democratic