Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-01-23
The New Scriptures.-According
TO TyndmIl. Huxley, Spencer
And Darwin. t
From the Cincinnati Commercial.l
Genesis, chapter 2.

Genesis, chapter 2.
1. Primarily the Unknowable moved
upon cos mos and evolved protoplasm.
2. And protoplasm was inorganic
and undifferentiated, containing ali
things in potential energy; and spirit
of evolution moved upon the fluid mass
8. And the Unknowable said, 'Le,
atoms attract; and their contact begat
light, heat, and electricity
4. And the Unconditional dfferntia
ted the atoms, each after its kind; and
their combinations begat rock, air and
water.
5. And there went out spirit of evo
! lation from the Unconditional, and
working in protoplasm by accretion and
absorption, produced the organic cell.
G. And cell by nutrition evolved pri-
modal germ, and germ developed pro
togene; aod protogene begat cocoon.
and cocoon begat monad aud monad
begat ,animalcule
Z. And animalcyle begat ephemcra
then began cfeepih. ss''sss.,s-s to multiply
on the face OF the earth.
g. And earthly atom in vegetable
prototopasm begat the molcule, and
thence came all grass and every herb
in the earth.
8. And the auimalculae in the water
evolved fus, tails, claws, and scales
and in the air wings and beaks; and on
the land they sprouted such organs as
was necessary as played upon by the
environment.
10. And BY accretion and absorption
came the radiata and mollusca, and
mollusca begat articulata, and articula-
ia begat vertebrate. ...
II. Now these are the generation OF
the higher vertebrate, in the cosmic
period that the Unknowable eyolnted
the bipedal mammalia.
II. And every man of the earth
while he was yet a monkey, and the
horse while he was a hipparion, and
the hipparion before he was an oredon.
l3. Out of the aseidian came the am
phibian and begat the pentadactyle; and
the pentadactyle by Inheritance and Sc
lection produced the hylobate, from
which are the simiadae Cor monkey in
all their tribes.
II. And out of the simiadae the le-
mur prevailed above his fellows and
produced the platyrhine monkey.
Is. And the platyrhine begat the ca
tarrhine, and the catarrhne monkey be-
cat the anthropoid ape, apd the ape be
gat the longimanous orang, and the
orang begat the chimpanzee, and the
chimpanzee evolved the-what -is-it?
16. And the what-is-it went into the
land of Nod and took him wife Of the
longimanous gibbons.
II. And i'll process of the cosmic pc
riod were born unto them and their
children the anthropomophic primor-
dial types.
IS. The homunculus, the proanathus,
the troglodyte, the autochthon, the ter
ragen-these are the generations Of pri-
meval man.
19. And the primcval man was ma
ked and not ashamed, but lived in a
quadrumanous innocence, and strug-
gled nightly to harmonic with the en-
vironment.
%. And by inheritance and natural
selection did he progress from the
stable and homogeneous TO the complex
and heterogeneous; for the weakest
died and the strongest grew and multi
piled
81. And man grew thumb for that
he had need of it, and developed capac-
tiles for prey.
90. For, behold, the swiftest men
caught the most animals, and the swift
est animals got away from the most
men wherefore the slow animals were
eaten and the slow men starved to
death.
23. And as types were differentiated
the weaker types continually disappear
ed. ~
"a. And the earth was filled with
violence; for man stroye with man,
and tribe with tribe, whereby they
killed of the weak and foolish, aud Sc
cured the survival of the fittest.