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Evolutionist Scriptures.
lGENESIS-CHAPTER II.

I. Primarily the Unknowable moved
upon cosmos and evolved protoplasm.
,. And protoplasm was inorganic and
undiferential, containing all things in a
potential energy; and spirit of evolu-
ton moved upon the huid mass.
5. And the Unknowable said, let at
oms attract, and then contact begat
light, heat and electricity.
4. And the Unconditional differentia-
ted the atoms, each after its kind; and
their combinations begat rock, air and
water
5. And then went out a spirit of evo-
luton from Unconditional and working
in protoplasm, by accretion and absorb
ton produced the organic cell.
6. And the cell by nutrition evolved
primordial germ, and germ developed
protegene, and protegene begat cocoon,
and cocoon begat monad, and monad be-
gat animalcule.
Z. And animalculm begat ephemera;
and then began creeping things to null
tiply on the face of the earth.
s. An earthly atom in vegetable pro-
toplasm begat the molecule, and thence
came all grass and every herb in the
earth.
8. And animalcula 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
necessary as played upon by the envir-
onment.
10. And by accretion and absorption
came the radiata and mollusca, and mol
lusca begat articulata, articulata begat
vel tebrata.
II. Now these are the generation of
the higher vertebrate, in cosmic period
from which the Unknown evoluted the
bipedal mammalia.
10. 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.
IS. Out of the ascidian came the am
phibian and begat the pentadactyle, by
inheritance and selection, produced the
hylobate. from which are the simiade in
all their tribes.
II. And out of the simiade the lemal
prevailed above his fellows, and pro
duced the platyrhine monkey.
Is. And the platyrhine begat the cat
airline, and the catarrhine monkey be-
gat the anthropoid ape, and the ape be-
gat the longimanous orang, and the orane
becat the chimpanzee, and the chimpan-
zee evoluted the what is it.
l6. And the what is it went into the
land of Nod and took him wife of the
longimanous gibbons.
II. And in process Of the cosmic per-
iod were born unto them and their chill
dren the anthropomorphic primordial
types.
Is. The homunculus, the prognathus,
the troglodyte, autochthon, the terragen
these are the generations of primeval
man.
10. And primeval man was naked and
not ashamed, but lived in quadrumanous
innocence, and struggled nightly to har
monte with the environment.
20. And by inheritance and natural
selection did he progress from the sta pie
and homogeneous to the complex and
heterogeneous for the weakest died and
the strongest grew and multiplied.
II. And man grew a thumb for that
he had need of it. and developed capaci-
ties for prey.
%. For, behold, the swiftest man
caucht the most animals. and the swift
est animal got away from the most men,
wherefore the slow animals We're eaten
and the slow men starved to death.
% And as the types were different
ated the weaker types completely disap-
peared.
"a And the earth was filled with
violence; for man strove with man and
tribe with tribe, whereby they killed of
the weak and foolish and secured the
survival of the fittest.