Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-04-20
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CharlcstoNns leTerson county, Meat Va:
: TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 6. 1875, !,
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Ia, -Xr. Editor I'll send you below an account
of the creation5Sof the world, ofsmen and of
things generally, as We now fnd them. it's
an abstract made from the most recent AID
learned authors. Tyndall, Haxley. Spencer
and Darwin, who find the narration of Moses
quite incompatible with the demsnds of Sci
ence," and asst is a pity that our people
/ should longer remain in ignorance of the real
truth of things now made SO clear, I hasten
to their relief as follows - 5s.yo - 81.
r. J.. Primarily the UnknowabIe moved upon
chaos and evolved protoplasm. sis{
Z. 2. And protoplasn was inorganic and I'M
Differentiated, containing all things in poten-.
tial energy; and spirit of evolution moved
upon the fluid mass. - eas
"a. Andathe Unkhowable said, Let atoms
attract" andItheir contact begat light, heat,
and electricity. 80
K. q. Andthe unconditional differentiated the
atoms, each after its kind and their comb.
nations begat rock, air, and water ae
5. And there went out spirit of evolution
from the Unconditional, and working in pro.
toplasm by accretion and absorption, produced
the organic cell. t'-' 1f's4 fa % =
6. And coll by nutrition evolved prinordial
germ, and germ developed protcgeue and
protogene begat cocoon, aud eoz6on begat
monad, and monad 6egat animalcule
r. q. And auimalcule begat ephemera; then
began creeping things to multiply on the face
of the earth stsEs 49, So F1a
rs. And earthly atom in vegetable proto-
plasm begat the moIecule, and thence came
all grass; and every herb in the earth
8. Aud animaicu'@ in the water evolved
fins, tails, claws, aud scales; and in the air
wings and beaks and on the land they
sprouted such organs as we're necessary, as
played upon by the environment
lo.'Aud by accretion and absorption came
the radiata and molusca, aud molusca begat
articulata and articulata begat vertebfata
IL. Now these are the generations of the
higher vertebrate I: in the cosmic period the
Unkuowable evoluted tie bipedal mammaliai
r. IL. And every man Of the earth. while he
was yet monkey, aud the horse while he was
a hipparion before he was an oredon
ID. Out of the uscidian came the amphibian
and beeat the pentadsctyle; and the pen
tadactyle by inheritance aud selection pros
simisGee in all their tribes
Il. And ont of the simiadee the lemur pre-
vailed above his fellows and produced the
platyrhine monkey.
Is. And the p!atyrhine begot the catar>
rhine, and the catarrhine monkey begat the
anthropoid ape, and the ape begat the lon
eimanous crang. and the orang begat the
chImpahZee, and the chimpaDzee 'evoluted the
WHAT'S it. a. l
Is. And the what-is>it went into the land
of Nod and took him wife of the longima>
nous gibbons.
II And 10 process of the cosmic period
were born unto them and their children the
anthropouiorphic primordial types.
1S.-The homonculus, the proguathus, the
troglodyte. the autechthon, the terragen-
these are the generations of primeval man.
10. And primeval man was naked and not
ashamed, but lived in qnadrumanous limos
cence, and struggled nightly to harmonic
with the environments.
20. And by the inheritance aud natural Sc
lection did he progress from the stable and
homogeneous to the complex and heteroge>
neous for the weakest died and the strongest
grew and multiplied
81. Aud man grew thumb for that he
had need of it, and developed capacities for
prey.
22. For, behold, the swiftest men caught
the most animals, and and the swiltest ami,
mails got away from the most men; where's
fore the slow animals were eaten and the slow
men starved to death.
% And as types we're differentiated the
weaker types continually disappeared.
"a. And the earth was filed 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 fttest.
Pm SUIT -AGAINsTA BUILDING SoC1ETY.-A
case was tried in the City Court on Saturday,
6eforeEJudgc Brown, in which Samuel G.