The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-15
Did Man Spring from Monkey

It is probable not one in ten OF our ooutnesn
readers are aware of the prevalence OF IHn.
deity at the North and in Europe. liz
all conservative, rural peoples the maJolny
of Southerners are reilgloqs py ia nnd the he.
l;efs of their fathers without much ~though''
or individual inquiry. In this they are tru-
" fortunate. But in order to show the
drift of Northern scientific Theology, we
Owe an abstract of the recent discussion De-
tween two Northern religious papers.
DR.. McCosh. of Princeton college, SAID
before the Evangelical Alliance
1T is useless to tell the younger natural.
for then knoec that there IS; truth achtch IS not
to be set aside by denunciaton. kellglous
philosophers might be proftably employed
IN showing the religious aspects OF tne
doctrine of development and some "ou.o
he grateful to anv uho would help them 70
Ieepp thar old faith IN God and the bloie
| with their new faith in science.
The Independent taking this as an lndirec'
text, declared that: b.
orr scientific authorities, almost aclthout sr-
cention. hat man was, at least SO Tar as MS
nhvsical structure is concerned, erOtued from
IRRATIONAL animals. We, therefore, cannot
holm doubling. as every thinking and schol-
arlv Young man must and.DOEs doubt, ochethe?r
the story of the fill of the first Ada" IS
HISTORICAL"
The editor of the New York Observer took
the trouble to send copy OF this deciaratlon
to a number Of college presidents, ana re- e
ceiyed guarded replies from a numper OF
them. President Porter, of Yale, replied
that the statement did not give a correct
representation of the teaching IN that col
leqe President McCosh answered that his
college did not teach that man was evolved
from the irrational animals. II do not,
he added, however, oppose Development,
but an otheistic development. The rephes
from Amherst, Williams, Brown and otneI
institutions were OF about the salhe senol
only the denial Of President Seelye, or Am
herst. was rather more emphatic. ltappears
5 that no inquiry was addressed to HARVARD
To all this the Independent replies that 1
IS seeking to show that the doctrine OF eyo
lution can be taught in harmony with the
Christian faith; that it's claim is that onl!
mans physical structure was derived IRON
the irrational animals; that this physlca
evolution has been guarded by a suprem'
. intelligence, and that IN due time 00o aou =
a soul to the body which he had produced b.
evolution. This theory, 1T asserts, has beer
: taught by Wallace, Mivart and Gray anc
: endorsed bv DR.. McCosh himself. 1t the,
: quotes from the address of Prof. u. Z
= Marsh. the Yale teacher of palaontology, dc
: l;vered before the Society for Advancemen
: of Science, in which he said that one OF tn
. main characteristics of the present epoch l
= paleontology lis the belief that all ne l'
ing and extinct, has been eVoiVeu irol
the simplest forms. Another prom1ne1
4 feature IS the accepted fact Of the great an
& touttv of the human race Also that :.
t, IS now regarded among the active workers l
: science as a waste of time to discuss tn
t. truth of evolution. The battle on this poll
is has been fought and won. :,
Sc In support ofthe same position the ma
o pendent quotes Prots. Dana, Ierflli' prey
er and Smith, Of Yale Prot. Macloskle' tn
is only naturalist OF Princeton; ana also ioun
It. and Bracket, Professor ct astronomy an
is physics: Prof. Packard, the zoologlst
Brown: and every one of the Harvard pr
lessons whose departments have to DO WIT
y biology, GRAY, Whitney, A. Agassiz (son
IN the DISTINGUISHED Louis Agasslz), Haze
~ Goodale. Shaler, James, Fariow. and taAo
rs These men do not all believe that Darwli
NJ principle of. natural selection Is a su1ncie
,ts theory of evolution, but they accept eyoi
Id ton. Two ex-presldents OF the oo TlsS !
,os there is no biologist Of 'srepute now-a-da
h;s s'who does not accept, in some form or 9th
n5 s'the doctrine Of derivation In time, VIII
-" lever be the precise form IN which tn
s%ssuppose the evolution to have occurred
7ell The other almost without exception
zen working n,turalists of this country a
5on Europe believe in evolution; :,
his In conclusion, the Independentsay =
18th have made it plain, that. evolution may
the thoroughly christian. Our codtenaion
CHI not that it is true, but that it .isso geref1'
me taught that it is inevitable that9aEsth tn
dis ing and scholarly young men will geher'
ay, accept it on the word of those whose OF
ness it is to study the matter )" and it az
one warns the Observer and other religious sht
to cease their efforts to shOce the studen
our leading colleges orer. the prec,Rtce o.
the fidelity by making them believe that !"
past they do thus accept the doctrine OF e'oiu
y in they must give up Christ's gospel.
the -~
ON
ton, The Gazette prints a glowing accouI