New-York tribune., 1878-04-12
UNITY OF PLAN IN NATURE.
DR.. b. WAREHOUSE nAwKrSs's FIRST LEcrrs
AGAINST DARwINIsM.

DR.. B. WATERHoUsE HAWKINs's FIRST LEcTf,pr
AGAINST DARwINIsM.
William Cullen Bryant, Frederick De Pev,-
ter W. Mayo, Chef-Justice C. p. DAILY and other bs
nent citizens, recently addressed to Dr. b. waterho0.
Hawkins, "a letter asking him, before leaving M.
country to find opportunity to give a course a.
lectures illustrating the facts in natural history con-
pared with the hypothesis of Darwnism." Dr. Hsz
kns consented, and the first Of the series OF eight
lectures delivered last evening at Association Han
The audience appreciative, and its close attents
held throughout the lecture by the novel and in
teresng method of the speaker The special subject
for the evening The unity of plan and eyidenee
of design in the animal kingdom, past and present"
Dr. Hawkins is short, yhaired slightly bald mar
of about sixty years, with strong. prominent features
blackboard, with handful of colored erayoss
in his hand, and began to draw he talked
address his arguments were enforced quite as much 5y
his drawings by his words He probably did not leaye
course AS IN illustrating his remarks the pictures m
the board rapidly assumed accurate FORMS ths
aTdSHee %s6 te show yon he sad Sar applause
tue lowest to the highest forms OF animal bfe
complete unity The origin is the same the method of
nOurishment when life Is forming, is the same: tbe
Every animal for instance, is originated the ege and
has to be nCurshed while growing III each egg the
tgre gradually takes form according 20 its species
LIE Witch Il sustained Saced tnera the for yGS Of ths
A the lecturer talking he was drawing a Ash In EN-.
bTyO, and then its gradually changing form, until a.
sumed its natural shape. He then took mp separaiely
the various vital systems OF the same animal tracing
first the method OF nOurishment then Of circulation
about this the nervous system with brain
aud nerves, the organs Of sense, the bones
aud other organs Of protection AID then. almost before
the audience aware with two or three rapid strokes
completed an immense perfectly formed FISH. During
this time the speaker had been rapidly explaining the
purpose OF each separate organ and how H. and nothing
else could have answered the end for which was Used
And nOw" said he, dryy, as he began TO rub out the
drawings, still wi his back TO the audience, l. BE-
cause very old have got an idea some way into my
head that there is design in all this nice adaptation u
things 10 certain ends. It's a way we Old fo1
Will get into spite OF everything. You see then
is never any mistake about these things. Everything
Is In its right place In the cell. The egg OF salmon
never yet has produced "A shark" Taking then the
large hgue OF the FISH and beginning 10 reform IT, ear
ing ony the vital organs, there soon appeared,
instead, crocodile; few additional strokes
and erasures were sufficient to change this
into hog "Thus YOU sec" continued Dr. Hawkins,
"hat whatever dignity the animal might have, the unity
are not vitalities met Frenchman on the to-day
with six fingers on one hand, but mans man for a.
that The variation is made 10 accommodate
the creature TO its immediate surroundings,
but IT is essentially the same before.
Now PERHAPS all this has by accident aud the
theories the eYOlutiOniss truth but there 50
much dignity IN thinking that it i the result OF benen
cent design, that there Is great plan behind H. that
man is much better and nObler for so thinking Tue
evoutlOnsts take all the poetry out OF e ana leave o
a sorry dry theory in its place"
Tie next lecture of the course VIII be gwen tohOTov
morning in the same place at IL O'clock