Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
THE NEW SCRIPTURES ACCORD
ING To TYEDALL. SPENCER AND
DARWIN. rs


2. And protoplasm WAS inorganic and
undifferentiated, containing all things
| III potential energy and II sDirlt Of evoiu-
ton moved upon the fluid mass.
s. Aud the Unkuowable said. Let
atoms attract" and their contact begat
light, heat and electricity.
4. And the Unconditloned diffeTentia-
ted tue atoms. each after its kind, and
their combination begat rock, air and
water.
}. And there went ont a spirit of evo-
luton from the unconditional and work
ing in prosoplasm by aecretion and alb
sorltlOn produced by the organic cell.
4. And the cell, by nutrition. evolved
primordiac germ. and the germ devei-
opsd proto.ene, and pro,o.ene begat
cocoon. aud cocoon besat animalcU.e.
.. Ard animalcule begat ephemera:
aud then began creeping things to
multiply on the face of the earth.
s. And the earthly atom in vegetable
protoplaSm begat the molecnie, and
thence came all grass and every herb
in the earth.
g. And animalcnle in the water
evoluted fins, tails. claws and scales;
and in the air, wings aud beaks: and
organs as were necessary as played
upon by the environment.
10. Amt,y accretDn and absorption
came the radiata and moliu>ca and
beyat articula.a, and articulaia begat
vertehra.a. Xxx E
IL. Now these are the generations of
the higher Vertebrate, in the cOsInic
period that the Cnknowable evoluted
the bipedal uamaIia.
T. And every man of the earth,
while Re MAS yet u monkey. and the
horse, while he was hipparion. and
the hipparion before he WAS AN oredon.
Is. Ont IF the ascidion came the
amphibian and hegat tine pehtadac-
tvie, and The pentadactyle by in
heritenre and selection produced the
hylOhate from which are the siniadac
in all their tribes. lL h-
II. And out of the Simiadac the
lemue prevailed above his fellows and
produced the platyri,ine -mnnkev.
Il. And the platyrhine begat the
eatarr hins; and the catafrhine monkey
begat the anthropoid ape, and the ape
begat the longimanous .qurang. aad
the ourauy hei.at the cilitsg saEee. and
the chimpanzee evoluted the " hat is
it. ... .H
L. Ard the what iS-it went into the
land of Nod and took a wife of the
l9nSi p,ag9g..pbsnnA &. atils.
period were born unto them and their
children r1ie antilropomorPhic pri-
mnrdiai types. ... .-,.,.-.. -. -
Is The hOmmicnlus, the pro2na-
thns. and the teragen-these are the |
generations NJ primeval man.
And man ratol
and not ashamed. but lived in quad !
innocence, and seemed !
nightly to harmOni1e with the en-
20. And by inheritance and natural I
selection did he progress from stahle !
and homogeneous To the complex and :
for the weakest died.
and the strongest grew an: multiplied.
u. And man grew thumb. for that
he had need of il, and developed
los for prey.
-. For. behold, the swifteSt man
.auCht the most animals, and the
swiftest animals got away from the
most men: wherefore the slow ami
mails were eaten. and the slow men
we're starved to death.
Is. And as types were differentiated
he weaker types continually dis
appeared.
a. And the earth was filled with
'Io'ence; for man strove with man,
md tribe with tribe, whereby they
killed off the weak and foolish. and
ecured the survival of the fittest.
ION. Ned. Rec. /
We are indebted to some unknown
for directing our attention
o the foregoing witty paraphrase. 1t
immers the " New Genesis down to
nicely.