New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-01
EvuEU1Iou And 3yv0Ey11B1.

Il EvuGU1IoN AID aBv0Ey1l1U.l
4 The evolutionisss are upon "a. Hue
| 10y and the rest strive 10 socumu]ats thst'
positive evidences" that the monad and
The mammoth, the reptile and ths bird
the monkey and the man, are mere physi
cal expressions in the grand chapter q
natural evolution. But while they TAX
issue with G enesis in denying that 81
things were created 90 Is to produc'
latter their kind" OF, in other words
that like produces like, they are equal,
at variance with that large body of intelli
gent physicists who have no desire Il
trace back their parentage to the polyp'
or assert their kinship to tho ape. Will,
true science shows throughout creation 6
wondrous chain of successive and per
fect,d links, the champions of evolution
discover only fortuitous development in
the growth of the grea ter from the less.
According to the evolutionary theory
order must give way to accident, for il
the egg, in which is concealed the primary
principle of animal life, can not be relied
upon to produce "after its kind" but il
liable to develop into something else. then
evolution involves involution, ard there
is no certainty that the paths We mark
out as those of progress may not prove re-
Progressive. Order is characterized by
its discreet degress-by unity in its
variety. Though the stars differ from
each other in glory, that difference does
not interfere with their cosmical COM
pleteness, and though distinct types and
varieties are found throughout the animal
kingdom such types and varieties do not
introduce discords into Gods grand psalm
of life, or prove man to be mere ami
malcular development
An itching desire to be recognized a.
wise above all who have preceded them
as having passed from the peristyle into
the woundrous temple of nature, and
with Retrospective 81 ance discovered al
the changes hitherto wrought therein
seems to be the great ambition Of the
mental athletes who make evolution their
evangel. They find some poor osseous
relic of the past, and with vain imagin-
ings endeavor to derive from it proofs,
beyond those of holy witt, that all exist
ing types of animal life once ran into each
other. Apostles of confusion, they absn-
don the teachings of nature for theories
in which idle fancies serve for facts, and
the true order of creation for the imagi-
nary evolution of the greater from the
less.
All human experience shows that there
is distinct limit to the progressive capa-
bilities Of every type and species through
out the whole animal world; they may be
carried by breeding and trimming to . Ger
tain point. but beyond that they can no
further 60. Tho hawk can not be '.im-
proved" into An eagle. the ass into .
horse, nor the monkey into man. Each
race is kept within metes and bounds by |
q law which no theories can overturn and
no evolution confuse-a law by virtue of |
which all discord becomes harmony, and
every link in the chain of creation proof |
of Godlike order. We are willing to &C.
cept whatever contributions the specula-
tive scientist may make within the domain
Of facts, but take the liberty of dissenting |
when he evolves theories from his facts as
baseless as the fabric of vision.
But the masculine evolutionists are by
no means the only ones who attempt to
turn the world upside down; after them
come the female revolutionists, who are
DESTROYS of freeing themselves from the
legitimate obligations imposed upon them
BY virtue of their sex. and, like the evolu-
tionists, are ready to degrade man from
The position of mastery he naturally en-
Joys. Though marriage is recognized by
he Sorosis sisterhood as an institution
Of the land, they wish to bend it to the
demands of matrimonial evolution and
he changeful fancies of a psssional at
traction. "Until death do US part" is
passage in the marriage ceremony to
which they decidedly object. They wish
o so modify the obligation that it may be
AIKEN up or cast down at pleasure.
Now the silken tie lies at the very foun-
lation not only of the family but of society.
t is not its fault if the bad are bad and
he weak weak. Without it they would
70 worse and weaker, and that chastity
nd honor which it inculcates, and which
ave raised the union of man and woman
o the dignity of sacrament, would be
ost forever in the excitement of passion
nd the chance fancies Of caprice.
The woman who adopts the free-love
heory is false to her own best interests.
When the attractions of her youth fade,
8 the sweetest and fairest of flowers do,
Vhat hold can she hope to have upon the
nan whom she has taught that the sane
ion of marriage is based solely upon in
lination? None whatever. There is moral
eprosy in the thought of that promis-
uous evolution by which the paternal in
tinct would be mainly if not entirely dis
olved, and scarcely less in frequent
hanges of matrimonial associations and
bligations
We have no fancy for either evolutions
r revolutions which are not elevating in