The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-10-19
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Hot Too Fast!

We do not wonder that 10 those who
hold 10 a production Of all existing spe.
cies simply by slow. insensible develop
ment the human species should present
some difficulties We do not care now
TO discredit even the production Of man
from the monkey but we would call az
tention to some facts which raise the
question whether, il so produced. he wa
not produced by sudden birth whvn
Providence was ready for him. and not
under the slow working Of ordinary law
In the first place. man, IL produced un
der the insensible Darwinian gradations
from the monkey. must have been many
hundreds of thousands OF years making
the change; and there ought To be. even
IN the imperfect geological records. some
intermediate forms Not one has been
found. The lowest existing man j. vast
ly removed in bone and brain from the
highest ape. But the oldest skeletons
yet discovered-those Of Engis aud Gro
Magnon-have skulls which are rather
above than below the average modern
European cranium in capacity. So Tar ~
we have any direct evidence, the most
ancient man. the man who lived with the
mammoths and cave-bears, might have
been philosopher.
Again, the oldest human remains prove
that the very oldest. the aboriginal man.
actually was considerably advanced IN
culture aud the arts He manufactured
out OF the most intractable materials nll
needful implements for the chase or for
domestic purposes. lie made bows and
arrows. lances and battle axes, scrapcrs.
avis. hammers. saws, and needles lie
drew pictures Of horses. reindeers, aud
mammoths on tusks, horns, and bones,
and proved the existence OF a degree Of
advancement considerably above the
lowest existing races. Indeed 10 would
be quite as easy to prove that there has
been a deterioration since the time OF
the Gro Magnon cave as that there had
been any development before IT,
Other lines OF thought occur and were
suggested by Mr.. Alfred r. Wallace. in
his late address before the British Asso-
citation. lie is one Of the originators OF
the development theory; but he holds II
in a thoroughly theistic way. and he
sends out note OF warning to his di-ci-
pies and Dnrwin's that they must make
haste slowly. lie says, and there j. no
higher authority living:
There has been tendency among men Of sci-
cnce 10 pass frOW one extreme 10 the other,
from u profession $50 few years Huui of tnfHl iE.
uuruuce ms TO ihc moue ot origin 90 all swing
Things to q claim % uiino-t complete kussul-
,ti..,. II tht whole pfuaf.- sf H.. litVsfr- ftofn
Iigh-.f d,,yr.opment o7 the human intsiis,f.
Yet this Il what We have really seen Ia thr last
sixteen years. g @ Il D. not long agp since
facts were contemptuousy ignored bgcllusr
they favored our now popular views. Al the
present day 10 seems that facts which Oppose
Them hardly receive due consideration.
Mr.. Wallace believes that, beyond all
question. the human frame was derived
from that OF some lower animal. But he
is ready to listen to evidence that man
mental powers. which distinguish him
from the brute. and some Of his pccu
liarities, come iSom some other source.
and were. perhaps, the sudden bpstow-
ment Of that mind which presides over
Nature Strange IL j.. IL man has been
developed under that slow law which
Darwin has announced, that his history
runs back 10 but few thousand years
that even at the dawn Of his history he
could build a mightier structure than
any that be has since achieved, and that
absolutely no remains exist TO prove that
be ever was less developed in structure
than he j. after all these centuries OF civ
ilization and culture. Law may be- only
Gods way Of working; but il i not yet
proved that one absolutely new species
has been protected under any law yet
formulated The production or birth Of
new species out Of old has been made ex
tremely probable; but no evidence has
yet shown that the new forms have not
been produced as suddenly as the crea
tionists could desire. One single series
Of skeletons showing gradual modifica
tion OF a Hipparion into a horse. or OF
an ape into man, would be worth
thousand times more as a proof Of Dar-
winism than hundred times our present
knowledge OF the toothed birds or three
toed horses, which are. at best, but we'll
defined species connecting orders or
classes.