Wilmington journal., 1875-01-15
From the lncinnatl Com mere; I'D.
THE NEW 81 RHPTUAES.
according to Iyndall, Huxley
Spepder and Darwin.
GENESES-CHAPTER !.


upon cosmos and evolved protoplasm.
2. Aud prosoplasm was inorganic
aud undifferentiated, containing all
things in potential energy; and spirit
of evolutlons moved upon the fluid
mass.
2 And the Unknowable said, Let
atoms attract; and their contact begat
light, heat and electricity.
4. And the UnconditIoned differen-
tiated the atoms, each after it's kind !;
aud tqeir combination begat rock, air,
and water.
5. And there went out a spirit of
evolution from the Unconditioned,a and,
working i'll protoplasm, by accretion
and absorption produced the organic
cell.
6. And cell by nutrition evolved
primordial germ, and germ developed
protogene; and protogene begat cocoon;
and cocoon begat monad, and monad
begat animalcule.
7. And aninalcule begat ephemera;
then begat creeping things to multi
ply on the face of the earth.
8. And earthy atom in vegetable
protoplasms begat the molecule, and
thence came all grass and every herb
in tle earth.
8. And animalculp in the water
evolved fins, tails, claws, aud scales;
AID IN the air wings and beaks; and
on the land they sprouted such organs
as We're necessary as played upon by
the environment.
10 And by secretion and absorption
came tho radl,ta aud mollusca, and
bt gat articu alta and articulata begat
vertebrate.
Ii. Now these are the generations
Of the higher verte brata, in the cosmlc
period that the Unknowable svoluted
the bIpedai mammalia.
II. And every man of the earth,
while he was yet a monkey, and the
horse willie he was a hipparion. and
the hippariOn befo1e he was an Oredon.
13. Out CT the acidan came the am
phibia1 and begat the pentadactyle;
and the pentadactyle by inheritance
| and selection produced the hylobate;
from which are simiadHs IN all their
| tribes.
IA And out of the simiade the le-
| mur prevailed above hls fellows and
produced the platyrine monkey.
l5. And the platyriEe begat the ca
| terrhine, and the catarrhine monkey
begat the anthropoid ape, and the ape,
| begat the longlmanOus orang, and the
orang begat the chimpanzee, and the
| chimpausee evoluted the what-is-it.
16. And the what-is-it went into the
land of Nod and took him wife of
the longi.nanous gibbons.
II. And in process of the cosmlc Pc
| riud were born unto them and their
| children tie anthropomorphic primor-
dial types.
IS. The homunculus, the progna-
| thus, the troglodyte, the auochton, the
| tarragen-these are the generations OF
| prImeval man.
49, And primeval man was naked
and not ashamed, but lived in quadru-
| manous innocence. and struggled
migntily TO harmonize with the environ
ment.
20. And by Inheritance and natural
selection did he progress from the sta
! bl..ssand homogeneous to the complex
and b. retogeneous-for the weakest
died ana the strongest grew and Inui-
tiplled
2l. And man grew a thumb for thai
he had need of it, and developed Ca
pacities for prey.
%. For, behold, the swiftest men
caught the most animals, and the
sw ftest ANIMALS got away 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 disap-
peareo.
81 And the earth was filed with
violence; for man strCve with man
and tribe with tribe, whereby the.
killed off the weak and foolish, and Sc
! cured tie survival of the fittest.