The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-05

>ttdtttS to kfSS<kNt~ at&tt<t VT t> VNf nature had the power of unfolding vari ton playing all the time against heredi,,
 two tendencies. he one sc continue in the same lne. and the ether to wary and the sirste betweeI those two qualities pro- dgcing nc~ development. ncw species, new conhtn a;sens, and then comes In the shecrS that all things have ar eveEp,uS of tfc !: seeds by the million. more ,han the earth caa sustain something has got to periSh.
 \ single fish oi;rn;.mes 1slxss in the spawn hundreds and Hundreds cf thou sands ot creatures in hundred wears the human race would eto~d eaSh other fl ihete ~as no death, fl everything came iron infancy io perfection m thls world. i This IS the foundation tor struggle. tnr existence. The weakest go ;o the wall. Those that arc bes, adapted to the climate to the conditions. sary,ye. and they go cn to better conditions of the race: they grow rom lower to higher ; from worse ;o better from weaker to stronger: from, simple to u,ore pul,i- l plcx.
 Haeekel says this requires DO other i consideration than that II is the inherent ] aatRtC VI Utsttktt. ffuN tdRtlt it ku ifC ln- heTcnt m matter. How came Il iherr : The necessity et creator is no, taken away. bu, rather augmented. IL IS a larger problem II IS a sablimct though, of God iha, i, was in Ills soul ,o eas, GU, matter and m touching wlth something of himself. letting Il se on in the long period of seif-eieatien under his eye and under the movement of that i,n- pulse which his soul gave to |, m the be- ginning I, does not take away design il carries t back. and the design is gen eric instead of specific.
 It IS very good thing Tor a man ,o say that God created some plants and ard sands. Divine design. Others say he created other plants out of the ritts and seams of the rock, whils, others are adapted to deep and rich so,l some can stand in the hyperborean regions. Di- vine wisdom. And some will grow only under a tropical sun. Divine wisdom And men say you destroy all those evi- dences of special design. No you don't. 1 You merely take them from the special and carry them further back and say God created the world and matter in such a way that II had m itself a roy d power oi unfolding and adapting" Ap- plauee
 liu; men say that there K m possible evidence tha, a stientis, can bung iot the existence of god. Noa anRot see you cannot he n. you canno, handle He does not speak iua have no evidence that Ills hand ;s pfe.en; 1ny here. nor ate there any tests either n the laboratory ot in the ale. nor ii any field oi lnsesugs- ton. Aa man evef met Hum; na man ever heafd Hum no mtu esrf satw liim therefore we say. !" There Is m positive evidence. He may. or may not exis,. The German says. He dont That is athelsi, The hnglshman says He may. but don, know That is Agnos;ie. The theist says |" He does. And the theory ot evolution has these three schools of disciples.
 Na4. 90 i.s as he la.. IS cen, esaed tha, VIC canno, prove God by any chem ical or any soieniihoal facts, tha, IS M. You cannot, nor can you prove the exist enee of single human beng by any such lest as that. That there IS a body you can show but you cannot by any seien- ,ifio tcs, tell me that there is lambent loNe. glowing imagination. within that person. You neither can sec Y. nor measure Il. nor taste II, nor smell II. nor bring any parllo oular sense to bear upon II. You will have to say l, IS probable. You have ,o say that b the rcsel,s which come from it VIC regard the fac, that there Is an existence of life. power will. reason. n the individual. but II IS question which science has to dismiss. Ii cannot touch II.
 No1 inc cxis,en ( oi God may be cer- tainly proved as hypothesis. All hy- l phothesss IS glorious guess which proves to be sagao .ous which conforms itself to all facts known and sueeessivcly disclosed which gives explanations which otherwise never could be found of mys- ] terious conditions of things. Looked al l Tn that light. l affirm that the easiest way ! of looking at the existence of Cod IS upon the hyphothesis that He is a will, an in- telligenoe, an executive being. somewhere, for some reason undisclosed to our lower senses. but that the world and all is his- l tory can be better explained on ,he theory of an intelligent creator lying back on ale phenomena and steering all m the larg sea of eternal things tha, memory of the exisianee of God makes everything on I CAIii CSstct tt CkPAa1u tstah any ohst' theory does. 1t throws light m dark places.
 Do you know what hypothesis does i. There arc two exttemes one of which these German philosophers admi, and advocate. and the other oi which does the very an,ithesis they scornfully deny Did you ever study the doctrine of atoms and molecules. What Is an atom. II is the last speck of nasier ;hs, has be- come so reduced by division that itscan- not be divided again. How large ts !; !: |, IS probably so small tha, million would no, come within the reach of the stronges, microscope that ever was made on earth. No man ever saw H no man ever measured II. No man ever knew t,s color nor is shape.
 Wha, is a molecale. | cluster of these atoms. Now that is chemistry. Chemistry to-day is nothing in the world but theory of matter founded on fhe doctrine Of atoms and molecules. You