Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-12-10

I les clans Jroeti2ucS do Inauguration. III
further says that the three other highes
authorities on Pale, zoc Brnchiopods, Hal
Davidson, and De koninick agree wit
him.
"Gaudry. ono of the best authorities Of
the Tertiary mammalia, admits the I'M
possibility of suggesting any possibl
derivation for some of the leading groups
aud Mivnrt, Saporta, aud lie Conte fal
back on periods of rapid or pd,Vrysmo
evolutiou.--Dawson. Query-whether tn,
paroSysmal element is not mainly in tn,
reasoning, at this point of these evolution
airy philosophers.
4. IT LACKS Gas already often implied) TIL
CONFIRMATION OF HISTORY.
Who has ever seen even through mi
croscopc, the " microscopic monad ?" Whc
has disinterrod from its strong bed one o
the thousand intermeatcs between tn,
great orders of life? They are not to b,
found in the vast collection of fossils Of
the British museum. Tablets, mummies
rings, coins, goblets, and images are play.
ing an important part in our day in Assy.
rian, Egyptian, Greek aud Aztec history
and we deciphcr their story with keen in.
terest. But though the cvolutionist waits
upon the exploring geologist with an ardor
similar to that of the terrier, intensely
watching for tho unearthing of rodent,
he is ever doomed to disappointment.
"Givc me children or | de-" is his despair.
ing cry. What he may be able to show is
some slight and non.essentinl variation in
species and sub.ordcrs. Tho peach by dint
of cultivation, in place Of its native thin
and bitter fruit, yields wcll.rounded, us.
cious flesh fit for gods and men. The acrid
and minute crab.appe becomes tho large
and grateful pippiu. The horse gains SYM
metry of form and speed by careful breed.
ing, and certain strains are more suscepti.
bic of improvement than others. Blood
counts. =" Heredity" comes into play.
The qualities gained are transmitted, but
after all, the noble animal remains still a
horse, though he stands sixteen hands
high and can do his mile in 2.l0I. So
with the dog, whether terrier or grey
hound, he is doggish still. So man himself
''for n that. and a that,"a man he re.
mains. albeit there is so much to choose
between the civilized Caucasian and the
savage Bushman. Both are men and in
constitution and capability. Environment
will do much that is valuable, but will not
alter the radical nature. Scratch Rus
sian and you will find Tartar" said Ma.
poleon. "As face answereth to face in
water, so doth the heart of man to man, :"
said one wiser than Napoleon. The ixity
of species finds examples in the mummy
birds and reptiles of Egypt, preserved 5000
years. They do not vary in the slightest
particular from these of to-day. But, says
the evolutionist, there are flying fish and
what are they but an example of fishes
changing into birds? True there are flying
fish aud when they are seen to fy ashore
and build their nests in the sand or grass
or on trees, when their gills change to
lungs, and their myriad spawn into the
five spreckloi eggs of the sparrow, evolu-
tion may mark the event with white
stone. There have been instances where
the grandfather, father and son have had
like crooked thumbs. Granted. Does it
follow that mans ancestor was monkey
There is what is called family resemblance,
the same cast Of features re.appeariug for
several generations perhaps. Does it show
that such family are developing into a
new and better manhood !? The solid con-
yiucing facts which alone can sustain an
hypothesis so vast and extended as this,
are not yet found, and as we'll may the
pyramids have been constructed of pebbles
as the philosophy of all life out of the
minute and petty variations laborionsly
gathered by the evolutionist. The great
blocks of syenitc are wanting.
.. EVOLUTION IN CONFLICT WITH REVELATION
AND CHRISTIANITY.
Let the declarations of the Bible and the
hypothesis of evolution with its necessary
differences be set side by side aud compared.
cREArIoSS OF LrvrNo THINGS.
BIBLE. EVOLUTION.
In days or periods. In No organism is, or
the 9th period God Gre ever has been created
ated all the marine ami. which is not microscopic.
mails and the fowls, each Whatever is larger has
after his k"d. not been created but de-
9Th period (a.) The veloped. Man has not
living creatures upon the been created but de-
land, each after his kind. veloped." Oxen.
lb.) God created man,
after his otcH likeness.
(c.) Ewes creation out
OF one OF the ribs Of
Adam.
MANS ORIGINAL CONDITION AND ENVIRONMENT.
Placed in Paradise. Was but little above
Had companio n 3 h p his progenitor, { b q
with his Maker Had su- monkey, in character and
ptIlOI nc e. a Wild man on
Named all the interiors level with the lowest
animals according toIsavages.
their natures and ruled
over them.
Was innocent.
MANS PAIL.
Under temptation he But by the laws of en-
disobeyed God, and was vironment selection and
condemned to Danish. survival Of the ftest he
menf from Eden, to hard was self progrcssive and
ship and death. has ever been advancing.
His offspring suffer in
like manner.
SAVIOR.
The seventy hfth de- Man not being fallen
scendani, AS 10 his but progressive, has no
human nature, fr IN need OF Savior. In time
Adam, WAS supernatur- he will attain all that -
ally born To be the Savior possible to man Jesus
OF mankind. God 30 was only an exception
loved the world TINT He ally deyelorsd man, his
gave his only begotien environment being spe-
Son, that whosocvcr be- iciaiiy favorable.
lisseth IN Him might not Christianity being but
perish, but have eternal one phase OF human pro-
life, The Word was gress, will be ou,grown
made flesh and dwet and cast aside.
among u.s."