The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-11
ORIGIN OF ANIMALS.

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Wishiu the Yestibuie of the tempe
of know ledge, there sitsa yelled, spank
like figure, which asks oil every enc who
enters. dark question new did lh'ngs
come to pass--how was it in the begin
ming ?" Wise men Of ali ages hayetried
to answer this dark inquiry, The Hln-
don and Hebrew have said-"In the he
ginning was God" Creation is the
expression Of the creative willard In
the results Of creation we may read the
solution of the enigma Of the sphinx.
| All natures creations help to answer
the question. Nature puts everything
out at interest-good or evil-eveIytning
at interest. The descendants of Marga-
ret, the child of sin were all born n
ain one half Of them were executed for
murder, and the others persisted in their
sins, to the fourth generation the sins
of the parents falling upon their chill
dren "even unto the fourth generation !"
Margaret's sins at interest But nature
has no special regard for this or that
particular class of her creations, the
good are at interest as we'll as the bad
Nature ia also conservative IF this were
not SO, the result would be very calami-
tous. The progeny of a single codfish,
lf-left to propagate without interference
by death, would soon increase till there
would be nothing but Goldfish. The re-
suit would be fearful multiplication,
Goldfish upon codLsh-cod upon cod
till at the end Of 500 years the entire
Atlantic ocean would be one huge mass
OF Goldfish. It would be the same with
man-were 1t not for war--pestilence-
patent medicines-bad whisky, de-, the
present 40 000,0 human beings upon
the earth would 50 increase In 500 years
that there would be Eve men and women
for every foot of land on the face of the
globe. But nature has provided law
by which this tendency is kept in check.
II man wishes TO cultivate any particu-
lar feature or quality in domestic plants
or animals ne becomes sub creator /;
and by preserving only those individual
members of the plants or ANIMALS which
he wishes to propagate, be slowly devel-
ops those particular features or qualities
which he desires. Thus man took al
insignificant weed from the seaside
and made the cabbage-the cauliflower
land ca bbage tree that grows to the
height of Is or Is ieet. He took blade
of grass ard made the corn--the wheat
the rye &c. Now nature creates in
precisely tie same way. Man improves
these things by selection so does nature
by natural selection. Darwin has
shown this, and how nature makes the
selections--by the survival of the fttest.
Another law of nature is the adapta-
tion of plants and ANIMALS to the sur
rounding circamstances-the envlrob-
ments. Cited the case of the frog llz-
card brought from Wyoming to the At
llantic seaboard, which in few geners :
tions become SO much changed By the
difference of climate and other surround
1 s
! ings as to be hardly recognizable as the
same reptile. In one portion Of South
America the mosquitoes have become Sc
1 numerous as to drive out all the warm
| blooded animals The men and women
of that country have developed, through
this contention with the musquito, q
thickness of skin that defes the probing
properties of that tormenting insect.
Thus all through nature is going on this
lcontention between the inntr forces oil
life and its environments-one force
lighting the other-trom the bulls and
besrs of Wall street atp TO the foxes and
hares. The professor explained and
illustrated the principles of the lowest
forme of animal lise-the plant animal
! ard the animaI-plar illustrating the
several gradatlons of animals in a very
beautiful manner-comparing this study
to the study of the languages. when tbs
I conclusion is forced upon the student
THAT certain ancient languages are the
lUarents of certain modern ones ; and BY
following back the stream Of languages
and animals, we must reach the poin
where we find the parent language OF al
other languages the Aryan and thu
parent animal of al. other animals.-th