The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-06-24
NEWTON And DARWIN.


.onahly Il mi ht be SAID of the law Of
gravity hat il leaves no .,l;,,, Tor heaven
ia a universe If stars Governed t,v this
.ll-preyalent iaw.
1t las not been noticed hy II csc v ho
fear or ~ those who reject tire theories
OF evolution, which lucn OF science now,
viii, SCARCELY an execution. accppt. that
these theories simply involve AN extern
sion of our ideas with rcyard 30 tile do
main of law in time akin to the extern
sion which we have been compelled to
admit with REGARD 10 space. When the
Copernician theory WAS finally es.ah,iShcd
BIZ the }ahors Of Newton (fcr before his
div the theory VAS only MOI. rgghabIa
t',au others not cp,tair1 men wer, OBLIGED
+, accc..t the doe,rire which 4 century
or two h,i,r, ,em.,l iucretiii,l, and ire
li1iti,s-t!,,. his earth a., which we live
is bat one of the smaller members Of the
suns family. ami ri,, Whole solar sys-
tom rut = noinr i, the i,nmens,,y of STAG
! strcUn space Sse;ru that thew had been
entirely mistaken. too. with regard to
SPACE, it should have been clear to them
that their ideas with regard to time also
had been Inadequate. As the small re-
zion about which they had before known
aucbt had become lost in the infinity OF
space. 50 the small range of time over
wh;cl, they had hitherto extended their
mercst second in the eterntes of time
necessary for the various stages in the
Growth and DEVELOPMENT Of those mri;f
tudiuous star systems. So also the pro
cesses of Growth in which tliev had here
tnfore believed Ibccausc indeed they
corld trace such processes thrcuah all
their staoes) shan'd have b Ell ,ccog-
uized as but the miputest portion of the
scbame Of the universe.
Yet somehow if .o chacaei that while
men accounted tl,e practically ;nG,,ita cx-
tension of the universe in space thew
recognizel no 1ouical necessity for \ cor
rcsnon,lin~ enlarpcp,cpt or their copcen-
+;o,,. rasro.tir, ,in,e and still loss did
+ho,- ,srca;ye +,,,4 l,y.,x+en6;,o ,,,cl
rnr.. Wildly ,L,u .noso ,b.v h,,. hith.
nrt, studied mus+ nrevail within t,e in
nr;-o do,,o;, 81 +ha ,1uicb+, yyLo,
Io,,,,o and .,,,, oIl,,. 1f,,,sa1.o, .,,l,..,,od
+hoorios ,f rho d,,.ol,,,,,,,,,,+ ,r s.,,,,. and
49,. .......,,,.. ,,..., .,;,,,,,, ,.,;o...,, .r,;,
.,,,.,;a,. 1,,..,,,,,, or tl,,.,.-+ .;.,,o ;,.,,
,.a1. ,l,i,,, +,,o,. ,,.o..o ,oo,, e., ,.,,,..,:.,
Tina Da,,.i,;,n thoorv or i-;,I,,ic,1
,,.,1,,+;,,,, ..,.,,1 ~ ,:,.s. ,.io,.. r,., i'm,
,,osi,,r :, +h;s r.snac+ Kat flo avail,
flo, or xo,,ds ~. svsts,,, of worlds b,,+
,..1,. +I.o avolrt;or ,c ,ooo., IF .,ni,,,,1,
seooed +, no !, ouas.ior R,+ ,,,ooiSal,,
,s tho INQUIRIES of E,n1ar INFO .2,e ,,ova-
mants of y siuole ul,net led tn the reco~-
milton Of those laws which have been
called the cbarter of +h, solar. svs4am
and nracisa,v ,S tl,c study IF tbesa Iaws
/ led to tho racornitio,, If y Inv nrevaiIino
tb,o,chout i,finity If s,,o.o ca +I. dc
cussion nj, Darwin aud his follow work
ers of the evolution of races of animals
has hrouubt with it the accentanca Of
those wider processes Of evolution nv
which systems Of nIarets and svs+ams
of surb systems have como into be;nm
What had been wanting before was abso-
lnte. and. as it were, tangible evidence
of the operation of laws having n wider
rance OF action than the laws according
| to which animals and rlauts crow tn nor
lection. Other naturalists than Darwin
had suggested how such wider evolution
might be, but it was given TO Darwin
| that it actually is. And with the recog-
milton of those laws has come the recog-
milton of still widc:. still more stupend-
Gus laws Of nature. For the time inter-
walls which are necessary for the genera
ton Of a species exceed SO enormously
those belonging to the DEVELOPMENT of
a species as to carry us by but few
steps in imagination to the still vaster
periods necessary for the development of
worlds and world systems, whence the
mind passes to the evolution of higher
and higher orders in the universe. until
finally we Withdraw from the mystic
pathway satisfied that to such eternities
there is no end as there has been 10 be-
ginning.
1t is here, in the presence of these in
finite mysteries. that Gas Pasteur has re-
Gently and ABLY pointed out) science and
religion are brought together. "Wha.
is there" lie asks. beyond this starry
yaulto More starry skies We'll and he
vond ,hote This human mimi dr;r,,
by an invjpcible force. will never cease
asking, What is there beyopdo = =
II is useless to answer .Bevopd are nm
limited snaces times ar moc,;tudos
X,h ,d, nnSors+,ras ithaca o,ds H.,
who nrocIo;mc tho oviStor.o of ., :,
fu;+o ord no,,od, 40, avid, = a.o.,
,,,,,ro ,f +,,a s,,,,a,,,o+ :, +ho e.:
t;or ,b,n twists :, al +ho ,,;r,o,o. ~ -,
roI;riors. ror +ho ,o+io of 4ha ;,e,,;..
h.,, A.. +uoror1- o1,o,.,,,+r,. 90
.;s+i,Io o,,d i,,ao,,,..,,,aa;h1, W.,
This not;o, soi,o,. ~, Tho Mind ,ho,,o :.
rot,;no. Ice l,t IN ba,d t,,o ,- T.
+h.+ .nx;o,,s ,,,,,o,,+ an +,o r
Va
c,,l Mas. h,;,o. ..o;,,l h. 49,
~ ''@ '"iiiiie
madneSS oi rascal. Everywhere i'll the
universe we find the inevitable tbe irra-