The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-09-02

- over orders OF CREATION, concelVinR
nat such theory upsets the biblical &C
iount as rendered in Genesis and destroys
he doctrine OF the Immortality ol
ne soul, our future reoognizeaOr
xstence in auother and better world
Cnere is no use in becoming captious o.
lshiDg oneself into ievered frenzy a6ou
fhese things. AnthrOpoioglcal facts
whether ontoIogicul or archaeological art |
Affected by our beliefs, |
wishes, our hopes, or
our assertions, however caarmingly conol-
in the former may be, or hOsever dog
m .iic the latter. Whether the problem ofa
I Iture lie be tolvable et not outside OF the
regions of faith remains yet to be discIostd.
The genius OF the age is graphing in the
mighty maze, disrsggding the comfortable
and well-worn tracks of the fOrefatbers,
the thorns aud the stumbling
blocks, and has struck out into new fields
OF investigation and effort, and, as has teen
observed, is propounding solutions which
& ow into systems Of theology and philo .
ply, or, yelled in musical language, sug
gests more than it asserts and takes the
shape of the poetry of al epoch. Constant
accessions of knowledge, vast acoumula-
tons Of actual dnta, nutritious of thought
and stimulating In effects, are bursting the
theoretical coverings OF the past, giving us
new forms Of beauty, as the butterfly is de-
veloped irGm the grub. To many II is not
C)nsoling to conclude that ourselves emana.
| ted Mt some time IRON the family OF grubs
in the professional line Of our deFelop
III mt vet the recent remai Va
BILE progress of the anatomical aud
physiological sciences are enforcing this
conviction, however unwelc0me may have
b zen even our dimmest and secret-kept
slspicons. Brought face TO face with
these apes, goriIlas and monkeys, these
blurred copies OF himself as the scientist
now saws, 1t is true that we ace a. inst CO.. =
scous OF IA certain shock, due, perhaps, not
81 much to disgust at the aspect Of what
looks like an insulting caricature, as to the
u awakening OF sudden and profound mis-
trust OF timehonored theories and strongly
rooted prciadices Of mans position In ma
ture aud his intimate relationsto the under
world of lie. There arc 30 many
who would prefer to know thai
they are descended from "blooded stock >
from kings or even scapeEoat princes Of
other mobility" Of oil.conduct, from gen
erals of note and statesmen of eminenoe
rather than believe that their ancestry wai
was pleblnn and OF the peasants. rathC
than admit that It must be traced to III;
ape-like mGmmals as suggested by III,
documentary tail In the human embryo o
two months old, and further back to thu
lower vertebrate animals, the reptiles anC
li,hes and further back to the radiatcs, tn,
articulates aud the moluscs, and still tuI
Their back to the proto2oa and the fungi
where animal life is so near to the horde
line OF tho vegetable that microscopic
power fails to detect the assignabl'
difference, until at last one finds brough
logically home to him the conviction
OF the unity Of nature and 10 such extreme
' that he perceives that all natural bodit;
. known to us are equally animated, tina
l. the distinction which has ob,-ined IN thl
past AS made between animate and imam
mate does not eElst Mt all. Startling u
this doctrine may be- with its deductions o
lie being perhaps originally consequen
upon spontaneous generation, aud due IL
It's dillerentistlons, it's mutabilities and it
variations, TO natural and artificial selec
tons through either Inherited or adaptiv
construction-yet it does not depreciat
0 the idea Of the providence and the wisdom
u OF the Great Originator of som
Q b'sis. Startling ~ It may b
b with its data that man and the dog at,
1 the horse and the chick, the frog and III
e fish, begin their respective existences iden
tlcally alike, US asimple egg, n single it'll
u c,ll email rlobular bladder, undistir
guishable for weeks after iructifcatlon, Il
: form, structure and size, but only In mole
oular composition of the albumlnous CON
bination OF carbon, of which the egg essen
! TALLY consists--yet IL does not undcrmin
: our confidence In the correct benevolcnc
u of the First Designer. Startling as the doc
y thine may be to the mobility" with tn
e genuel" blood that flows in their priv
q .ged veins, and TO kings who urge thei
claims by divine right OF descent from III
y Godhead, and wlo muSt hang their head
e In shame at the thought of Oeing physiC
c ally one and the same with the pa;iahs
y vulgar citizens" ard ether exisicnces, y
u to that conviction must ho come At last.
ASuming thcdepth " Degradation as IN
initial stsrtug point I'D considering III
advance aud the present compa.aiiy
L nobility ofh luanIty in the Immense gull
70 has produced between itself aud the brute'
g we rather glory In the onward march TIN
= intellect had made and rtioce In the splei
dor o, ever improving capacities thu
sprung fom the lowliest forms, and who'
t. possessors now with many marvellous cl
VI dowments like the Alpine traveller G
70 those highest roseatc poaSa touching u
u lost the clouds OF heaven are nov al
waited above aud beyond the slal
u and the slums of passion pr
W lulce and ignorance, "trar
T. figured from the grosser nature by rcileC
DC Ing here aud there ray from the luiini
"a S,urcs of all truth So, We care but lit,
W whence we came.
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