West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-11-02


we see Tyell, Tyndall and their
school, take this child world upon
which we tread, and inductively
trace through untold thousands OF
years, by automatic Evolution, it's
course from diffused atsms in space,
until it becomes solidifed into a
sphere fit for sustaining animal life.
This their field OF labor, whose re-
salt constitutes the first great sci -
ence circle link of the tinsel chain OF
Evolution. Then come Bantian and
Liebig and their school, and hermet-
zeal y sealing a flask of fluid devoid
Of all life, evolve from it Bacteria,
the simplest form of life, simple cells
filled with protoplasm. This is their
ksld, and the result is the second
link Of the chain. Then comes Hux-
ley and Spencer and their school,
and demonstrate that all life, veget =
able and animal, is composed oil
three simple cells filed with this
protoplasm. They claim that all
Ii difference is OF form and not OF
quality; that the ascending scale OF
life is the result of q combination
and diffusion OF functions self-exis-
tent in cell or protoplasm. This is
their field Of labor, and the result is
the third link of the chain. The n
come Darwin and his school, and by
natural selection" traces the origin
Of species up from the minutest
form Of fish life, through insect, rep
tile, bird and beast to the origin OF
human life, the era OF mind, and its
progressive advance nent up through
the stone, bronze and iron age to the
present time. This is their field of
labor, and the result ia the fourth
link Of the chain. Then come Max
Muller and his school, and trace
man g moral and religious nature by
a similar Evolutionary process, and
link all the creeds Of the present to
the traditional myths and supersti-
tIous doRmas of the past. This ie
their field of labor and the result is
the fifth link of the chain. And
now Huxley comes in again with a
school, and seeks to prove that man 3
mind is snI cmatic, as processes by
which his physical structure has
been formed from inert matter. This
is their field Of labor, and the result
Is the sixth and last link of the chain
which binds the fields OF the new
departures" in physical science, into
the vast scheme we have Just review
ed. Its teachings is, Force acting
by Evolution on matter, has produ-
ced It's highest CULINARY form of
successive organizations in man, and
the result is soulless automatic ma
chine. To be true to it's theory of
progressive development, it should
evolve higher grade of human in
telligence, superior to the Anglo
Saxon nations of the world. Our
friends, the Evolutionists, have from
a great purposeless, aimless First
Cause, constructed this chain, but to
what, as an ultimate parb oSe, will
they attach it7 They are silent.
What theory with a past and
present but no future? Their theo-
ry is susceptible of he admission of
but two possible hypothesis as to
an ultimate purpose Materialsm
and Pantheism.
Evolution its tendency is the
overthrow of revealed religion; its
destiny is to crumble into the ruins
OF an extinct creed, when the light
of scientific truth is intelligently
presented to public attention by
men Of disciplined culture. Amid
the glory Of burning suns, and the
light OF blazing worlds, filling the
Unreasonable fields of space, Force
existed, and was working on matte
through The endless ages Of eternity,
ere the world began; but it was
such an awe'insPiring theme OF ter
rife grandeur, that it appalled, hu-
man thought from its attempted con.
temptation by it's magnificent mystic.
riousness. The Evolutionist turn
ing from the burning scroll Of the
universe, blazing with the light of
numberless suns and countless stars.
turning to the rushlight Of this
email planet, this little mud ball of
ours, here combining his gaze, and
conducting tinsel chain, false to
science and unknown to truth, and
then by the boldest erratic presump
tion mans Imagination ever knew.
iingIng it millions upon millions OF