Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-01-28
THE NEW SCRIPTURES.
According to Tyndail. Huxley, Spencer and
Darwin.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing from Salt LAX
City, sends the following, which h
states is the work of a scientific
gentleman in that place, who is en-
gagged IN getting up new transia
ton of the scriptures, to accord will
the late developments by Huxley
ard Darwin F.:
GENESIS CHAPTER II.
Il. Primarily the Unknowabl,
moved upon cosmos and evolved
protoplasm.
~. And protoplasm was inorganic
aud undifferentiated, containing al
things in potential energy and /
spirit of evolution moved upon thu
fluid mass.
"3. And the Unknowable dlfferen
tiated the atoms, each after its kind
and their contact begat light, heat
and electricity.
~. And the Unconditional differ,
entiated the atoms, each after III
kind ; and the combinations begat
rock, air and water.
"5 And there went out spirit 81
evolution from the Unconditional
and working in protoplasm, accre.
ton and absorbtion produced the or.
ganic cell.
"6. And cell by nutrition evolved
prim0rJial germ, and germ developed
protogene and protogene begat
cocoon, and cocoon begat monad, and
monad begat animaiculs.
81 And animalcule begat ephe-
mera; then began creeping things
to multiply on the face OF the earth
80. And earthly atom in Vegetable
protoplasm begat the molecuie and
hence came all the grass and every
herb 10 the earth.
%. And animalcule in the water
evolved fins, tails, claws and scales ;
and in the air wings and beaks. and
on the land they sprouted such or
gans as were necessary as played
upon by the environment.
40. And by accretiOn and absorb
ton came the radatu ard molIusca,
and molusca begat articulata, and
begat vertebrate.
al. Now these are the genera.
tons of the higher vertebrate, in
the cosmic period that the Unknow-
able evoldted the bipedal mammala.
10 And every man of the ea:sb,
while be was yet monkey, and the
horse while he was yet a hipparion,
and the hipparion before him was an
oredon.
ia. Out of the ascidian came the
amphibian and begat The pentadac-
tye; and the pentadactyIe by inher-
itance and selection produced tbs
by lobate, from which are the SINH,
ade in all their tribes.
"14. And out of the simiaie the
lemur prevailed ABOVE his fell WIS
and produced the platyrhine mon
key.
"15. And the pl 4tyrhine begat the
catarrhine ; and the cattarrhine
monkey begat the anthropoid ape,
and the ape begat he longimanous
orang, and the orang begat chimpan-
zee, and the chimpanzee evoluted
the what-is~it.
40. And the what-is-it went into
the land of Nod and took him
wife of the l)ugimanous gibbons.
III. And in the process of the
cosmic period were born unto them
and their children anthropomorphio
primordial types.
"18 The homuncuIus, the progna-
thus, the troglodyte, the anthohthon,
the terragen: these are the genera
tions of prlmeval man.
"19. And primeval man was naked
and not ashamed. but lived in qua
dromanous innocence, and struggled
nightly to harmonic with the en-
vironne nt.
"20. And by Inheritance and ma
tural selection did he progress from
the stable and homogeneous 10 the
complex and Heterogeneous for the
weakest died and the strongest grew
and multiplied.
"21. And man grew thumb for
that he had need Of 1t, and developed
capacities for prey.
"22. For, behold the swiftest men
caught the most animals, and the
swittest animals got away from the
most men, wherefore the slow ami
finals were eaten and the slow men
starved to death.
"23. Aad as types were differe0-
tiated the weaker types continually
disappeared,
"a And the earth was flied 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.