Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-04-07
The New misunderstanding
TO Tyndall, Huxley, Spencer
and Darwin.
GENESIS-CIIAP. |.

/. Primarily the Unknowable NOV
ed upon cosmos and evolved proto
: plasm.
2. And protoplasm, was Ignorance
and undifferentiated, containing al
things in potential energy ; and
spirit evolution moved upon the tluic
mass.
8. And the Unknowable said, le
atoms attract and their contact be
gat light, heat and electricity,
4. And the Unconditional differen-
tiated the atoms, each after its kind
and their combinations begat rock, all
and water.
.. And there went out spirit OF
evolution from the Unconditional
and, working in plotoplasm, by accre-
ton and absorption, produced the or
ganic cell.
6. And cell by nutrition evolved
primordial germ, and germ developed
protogenc ; protogene begat cocoon ;
and ezoon begat monad, and monad
begat anlmalcule.
7. And animalcule begat cphemara
then began creeping things to multi
ply on the face of the earth.
s. And earthly atom in vegetable
protoplasm begat the molecule, and
thence came all grass and every herb
on the earth.
O. And animalcule in the water
evolved fins, tails, claws, scales and
in the air wings and beaks, and on
the land they spouted such organs as
were necessary as played upon by the
environment.
10. And by accretion and absorp-
ton came the radiata and mollusca,
and mollusca begat articulata, and ar
ticulata begat vertebrate
II. Now these are the generations
Of the higher vertebrate. in the cos
mic period that the unbnowable eoy-
luted the bipedal malnmalia.
u. And every man OF the earth,
while he was yet q monkey and the
horse while he was hipparion, and
the hipparion before he was an ore
don.
13. Out Of the ascedian came the
amphibian and begat the pentabac-
lyle and the pentadactyle by inherit
mcc and selection produced the hylo-
bate, from which are the simiadp in all
their tribes.
II. And out Of the simidW the le-
mur prevailed upon his fellows and
produced the platyrhine monkey.
10. And the placyrhine begat the
catarrhine, and the catawhine monkey
begat the anthropopoid ape, and the
ape begat the longimanous orang, and
the orang Degat the chimpanzee, and
the chimpanzee evoluted the what-ls-
it.
16. And the what-is it went into the
land Of Nod and took hlm Il wife OF
the longimadous gibbons.
II. And in the process Of the cos
mic period were born unto them and
their children the anthropomorp hic
primorbial types.
Is. The homuRcalus, the progna~
thus, the troglodyte, the antochton'
the tarragen-those are the genera
tons Of primeval man.
10. Aud pr,meval man was naked
and not ashamed, but lived III quad
rumanous innocence, and struggled
n..shtily to harmonize with the envir.
onment,
20. And by inheritance and natural
selection did he progress from the
stable and homogeneous to the com
pleX and heterogeneous-for the weak
est died and the strongest grew and
multiplied.
2l. And man grew 4 thumb for
that he had need of it, and developed
capacities for prey.
%. For, behold, the switest men
caught the most ANIMALS, and the
swittest animals got away from the
most men wherefore the slow ami
mails were eaten and the slow men
starved to death.
"a. And as types were diherentia-
ted the weaker types continually dis
appeaed.
"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.