Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-05
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er tnlnes,lt is necessary that he follow
the Darwinian faith:
Which faith except every man do
hold now, without doubt he shall DO
so ultimately;
And the Darwinian faith is this:
That though there be three kingdoms
in nature, there is bat one nature in
the three kingdoms;
Not c%onfounding the terms, but d.
viding the substances;
For there is one kingdom of the
mineral, another of the vegeta.
bic and another of the animal;
But the elements Of the miceral. of
the vegetable, aud of the animal are
all one, the capabilities equal, the ma
terial co existent.
Such as the mineral is, such is the
vegetable, and such is the animal;
The mineral uncreate, the veeeta-
bic u%ncreate, and the animal uncre-
ate;
The mineral comprehensive, the
vegetable comprehensive, and the
animal comprehensive;
And yet there is not one uncreate
nor one comprehensive, but they are
all three uncreate, all three compre
hensible;
So, likewise, the mineral is all right,
the vegetable all right, and the animal
all right;
And yet not three all right, but all
three right;
So, likewise, the mineral is curious,
the vegetable is curious, and the AMI
NAL is curious;
Yet there are not three curiosities,
but they make m curious;
For like as we are compelled by
common sense to acknowledge that
these three kingdoms have some quail
tiles similar and some not;
80, likewise, are VIC forbidden by the
Baconian philosophy to say there is
three things where there are only one
thing;
The mineral is made of none, neither
created nor begotten-
The vegetable is of the mineral
usually, neither made, o created,
nor begotten
The animal is of the mineral king.
dom, not three mineral Kingdoms, one
vegetable kingdom, not three vege-
table kingdoms, and one animal king
dom, not three animal kingdoms;
And 10 these kingdoms some are
afore and after the others, some are
greater and less than Others.
But the whole three kingdoms are
co-extinct, though not co eval;
So hat in all things, as was afore.
said, the unity OF nature and the
nature o. unity is to be considered;
Ye, therefore, that will be
rational, must thus think of nature
Furthermore, it is necessary unite
complete erudition that he also com.
prehend rightly of the descent Of
man;
For the right theory is this: that
we acknowledge and demonstrate that
man, the most highly developed of the
animals now extant, is man and brute.
Man of the same animal substance
as a zoophite in the earliest epoch Of
the world, and brute by long descent
through intervening types born into
the world;
Imperfect man, and generally i'm
perfect animals, of reasonable desires,
and sometimes by human flesh and
blood subsistinp;
Equal to a zoophite as touching his
development and inferior to a zoophite
as touching his monotone of exist
ence;
Who, although he be a man and
brute, is not two animals, but one
animal;
One, not by degradation of the man
into the ape, but by development OF
the ape into the man;
One, altogether, not by confusion Of
terms, but by unity of substance;
For, as gustative brandy and settler
is one drink, so man and brute is one
being;
Who suffered during his education,
submitted to priestcraft, and will rise
again from hal error.
He shall ascend in the scale of
reason, till he develop into Tennyson's
browning race, and Disraeli's angels
come down upon earth.
Before whose coming all men shall
rise from their hobbies, and shall give
heed to the voice Of nature alone in
his works.
And those that do good will not
trouble about life everlasting; and as
none will do evil, there will be no
need of everlasting fire.
This is the Darwinian faith, which,
except a man believe, he may 60
further and fare worse.