Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-04-20
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ts Xr. Editor I'll send you below an account
of the creatiouRof the world, ofsmen and. of
things generally, as we now 'fnd them. Its
an abstract made from the most recent aud
learned authors, Tyndall, Haxley, Spencer
and Darwin, who find the narration of Moses
quite incompatible with the demsnds of Sci
ence," and as it is a pity that our people
should longer remain in ignorance of the real
truth of things now made so clear, hasten
to their relief as follows :--e.s4s.sii zss s{t
r j. Primarily the Upknowable moved upon
chaos and evolved protoplasm. - l.sis:l
2. And protoplasm was inorganic and nm.
differentiated, containing all things IN poten-.
tial energy; and spirit of evolution moved
upon the fuid mass. -= ~. - s
3. And 1.-THE Unkhowable said, "Let atoms
attract" aud their contact begat light, heat,
and electricity. 80
3 q. Andthe unconditioned differentiated the
atoms, each after its kind and their combi.
nations begat rock, air, and water s2
5. And there went out spirit of evolution
from the Unconditioned, and working in pro
toplasm byaccretion and absorption, produced
the organic cell. @ e5 y 4s - =
= 6. And coll by nutrition evolved primordial
germ, and germ developed protogene; aud
protogene .begat cocoon, aud eoz6on begat
monad, and monad begat animalcule
&. And auimalcule begat ephemera; then
began creeping things to multiply on the face
of the earth. sa-s 49, fa1
8. And earthly atom in vegetable proto-
plasm begat the moiecule, and thence came
all grass, and every herb in the earth. !.
g. And animaicu'e in the water evolved
fins, tails. claws, and scales; and in the air
wings aud beaks; and on the land they
sprouted such organs as were necessary, as
played upon by the environment aS
TO-. Aud by accretion and absorption came
the radiata and molusca, aud molusca begat
articulata, and articulsta begat vertebtata.
IL. Now these are the generations of the
higher vertebrate in the cosmic period the
Unknowable evoluted TIE bipedal mammalia.
IL. And every man Of the earth. while he
was yet a monkey, aud the horse while he was
hipparion before he was an oredon.
13. Out of the ascidian came the amphibian
and beeat the pentadactyle; and the pen
tadactyle by inheritance aud selection pros
duced the hylobste, from which are the
simiadse in all their tribes
IL And out of the simiadse the lemur pre-
vailed above his fellows and produced the
platyrhine monkey.
10. And the p!atyrhine begat the catar>
rhine, and the catarrhine monkey begat the
anthropoid ape, and the ape begat the lon
cimanous crang, and the orang begat the
chimpshZee, and the chimpapzee evoluted the
what is it.
Is. And the what is>it went into the land
of Nod and took him wife of the longima>
nous gibbons.
II End in process of the cosmic period
were born unto them and their children the
anthroponorphic primordial types.
1S. The homonculus the proguathus, the
troglodyte. the autcchthon, the terrageu-
these are he,gencrations of primeval man.
10. And primeval man was naked and not
ashamed but lived in quadrumanous limos
cence, and struggled nightly to harmonize
with the environment.
20. And by the inheritance and natural Sc
lection did he progress frotn the stable and
homogeneous to the complex and heteroge>
neous; for the weakest died and the strongest
grew and multiplied.
2l. Aud man grew a thumb for that he
had need of it. and developed capacities for
prey.
%. For, behold, the swiftest men caught
the most animals, and and the swiGtest ami
mails got away from the most men; vhere>
fore the slow animals were eaten and the slow
men starved to death.
20 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 ittest.
SUIT -AGAINsTA BUILDING SoC1ETY.-A
case was tried in the City Court on Saturday.
heforeEJudgo Brown. in which Samuel G.
Ridgsway sues the Baltimore Permanent
Building and Land Society for 1929, alleged
to have been paid the society in excess of 6
per cent interest. In September, 1869,
Ridgaway borrowed from the society s2,40O
advanced on shares of its stock. to be repaid
| by him to the society in weekly dues of sS.e4
for ten years he paid s1.TS4.30 in the
weekly amounts named up to Nav, 1873,
when he paid further amount of 81. $500,
making the total payments 81. $50, 80. obtain
ing release of the mortgage of house and
lot which he had given to secure the payment
of-the borrowed money. He claims that he
is entitled to recover all the society received