Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-20
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.

The Darwnian theory Of evolution and
origin of life has long attracted the
attention Of scientific professionals and
amateurs throughout the world. The
following has not as yet received the
sanction of the British Scientific Asso-
citation but i, believed to contain many
OF the most important truths collated
with reference to their innate merit and
value.
Primarily the unknowable moved upon
cosmos and evolved protoplasm. And
protoplasm was inorganic and undifferen-
tiated, containing all things in potential
upon the fluid mass.
And the unknowable said, let atoms
attract; and their contact begat light,
heat and electricity.
And the unconditional differentiated
the atoms, each after its own kind; and
their combinations begat rock, air and
water. And there went out spirit of
evolution from the unconditional, and
working in protoplasm, by accretion and
absorption produced the organic cell.
And cell by nutrition evolved primordial
germ. and germ developed protogene
and protogene begat cocoon. and cocoon
begat monad, and monad begat animal
Guile.
And animalcule beRat ephemera; then
began creeping things to multiply
on the face OF the earth. And earthly
atom in vegetable protoplasm begat the
molecule. and thence came all grass and
every herb in the earth.
An auimalcule in the water evolved
fins, tails, claws and scales; and in the
air wings and beaks; and on the land
they sprouted such organs as were neces.
sary as played upon by the environment.
And by accretion and absorption came
the radiata and mollusca, and molusca
begat articulata, and articulata begat
vertebrate.
Now these are the generation of the
higher vertebrate, in the cosmic period
that the unknowable evolved the bipedal
mammalia. And every man of the
earth, while he was yet monkey, and
the horse while he was hipparion, and
the hipparion before he was an oredon
Out OF the ascidian came amphibian,
and begat the pentadactyle; and the
pentadactyle by Inheritance and selec
ton produced the hylobate, from which
are the simide in oil their tribes.
And ont OF the simii@ the lemur pre-.
vailed above his fellows aud produced
the platyrhine monkey, And the pla
tyrhine begat the catarrhine, and the
catarrhine monkey begat the anthropoit
| ape; and the ape begat the lopgimanoui
, orapg, and the orang begat the chimpan
zee, and the chimpanzee evoluted tn,
wbat.is-it.
And the what-is-it went into the lane
of Nod, and took him wife of tn,
; longimanous gibbons. And in process,
t OF the cosmic period were born unit,
them and their children the anthropo
morphic primordial types. The homun
q culous. the prognathus, the troglodyte
= the autocthon. the terragen-these ar
the generations of primeval man.
And primeval man was naked and no
:, ashamed. but lived in quadrumanous in
nocence, and struggled nightly to har
8 monte with the environment. And b.
inheritance and natural selection did b
progress from the stable and homogene
o Gus to the complex and heterogeneous
A for the weakest died and the stronges
grew and multiplied.
And man grew thumb, for that h
5 had need of it. and developed capacit
for prey. For. behold the swiftest me
caught the most animals, and the swift
est animals got away from the most mer
wherefore the slow animals were cate
and the slow men starved to deatl
And the earth was filled with violenc,
for man stroye with man. and trina wit
IS tribe, whereby they killed of the wea
l. and foolish and secured the survival
the fittest.