The Portland daily press., 1875-01-12

THE New REs.-According to
Tyndal, Huxley, Spencer and Darwin.-Gen-
esis, Chapter H. ~ens ~ 5
1. Primarily the Unknowable moved up
on cosmos and evolved protoplasm.
2. And protoplasm was inorganic and I'M
differentiated, containing all things in poten-
tial energy; and spirit OF evolution moved
upon the fluid mass.
8, And the Unknowable said, Let atoms
attract; aud their contact begat light, heat
and electricity.
4. And the Unconditional differentiated
the atoms, each after Its kind; and their COM
binations begat rock, air and water.
s. And there went out spirit of evolution
from the Unconditional, and working in pro-
toplasm by accretion and absorption pro-
duced the organic cell.
6. And cell by nutrition evolved primer
dial germ, and germ developed protogene
and protogene begatDeozoon, and cocoon be-
gat monad, and monad begat animalcule..
Z. And animalcule begat ephemera; then
began creeping things to multiply on the face
of the earth.
g. And earthly atom in vegetable proto-
p)asm begat the molecule, and thence came
all grass and every herb in the earth.
8. And animalcule in the water evolved
fins, trils, 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 environment. Z
10. And by accretion and absorption came
the radiata and mollusca, and mollusca begat
articulata, and articulata begat vertebrate.
II. Now these are the generation Of the
higher vertebrate, in the cosmic period that
the Unknowable evcluted the bipedal NAM
malta.
12. 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 Ored0n.
13. Out of the ascidian came the amphi-
bian and begat the pentadactyle; and the
pentadactyle by inheritance and selection
produced the hylobate, from which are the
simiad@ in all their tribes.
IA, And out of the simiade the lemur pre-
vailed above his fellows and produced the
platyrhine monkey.
Is. And the platyrhine begat the eatar-
rhine, and the oatarrhine monkey begat the
an.hropoid ape, and the ape bcgat the longi-
manous oraDg, and the orang begat the
chimpanzee, and the chpanzee evoluted the
what-is-it.
16. And the what-is-it went into the land
OF Nod and took him wife of the longimau-
GUS gibbons. j.,
II. And in process of the cosmic period
were born unto them and their children the
anthropomorphic primordial types.
Is. The hamunculus, the prognathus, the
troglodyte, the autochthon, the terragen-
these are the generations of primeval man.
10. And the primeval man was naked and
not ashamed, but lived in quadrumanous in
nocence, and struggled nightly to harmonic
with the environment.
20. And by inheritance and natural selec-
ton did he progress from the stable and no.
moeeneous to the complex and heterogen-
eous; 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.
20. For, behold, the swiftest men caught
the most animals, and the swiftest animals
getaway from the most men; wherefore the
slow animals were eaten and the slow men
starved to death.
%. And as types were differentiated the
weaker types continually disappeared.
"a. And the earth was filled with violence;
for man strove with man, and tribe with
tribe, whereby they killed off the weak and
foolish and secured the survival OF the fittest.
Cincinnati Commercial.