New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-23
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ysbeg seeHes nfst iaauht that the eattli vas NOV
tts ees,fe Al tbe Halyefse AZ n WIS shctty PER-
ee,seA that the new asisBhB,t was betfert'y cpr-
ssteBt with christianity. az VS. hte NV bev nnnv
"a understand shat Ihe neW fsa'hs w tfr vrnhsfs
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oAsys gp jhe SANITARY nefel aNh Mest tNrr',Ir
argu,uept AGAINST alhesm " y WHY "Nress''s
that human misconceptions slaN'n wv W"'pr'r,' ~
they have hoon many llmis alGa4N' W Wv" ~
Copemioan astronomy, 50 win 'ho h''N'"''" w
ology we Tlse to a higher Wow ~ INV '""'"s' ~
God and of the nature oi Man 'hu" vas W.
aitainable before. So far from degrading linman
;tv ar nntting il on n level with the animal WORM
i, General the Darwinian theory shows us AIS
,nctlv for the first time how the crca ion ana per-
fading of Man is the goal toward when NATURES
work has all tho while been tending " cni"isos
tenfold the significance of human me- places -
upon even "A lofticr emincnce than poe's P'oP"''
have imagined and makes II seem moro 'han c'o'
the chief object of that creative acnVlly whic" -
manifested in the physical universe "hc" INC
nrocess of natural selection reached tho cVontioh
of humanity. n entirely new chapter IN inc MS
tory Of the universe was opened Ihrc caho "
moment whom psychical changes began 10 ne W
more use than changes in bodily structure ana '"o
DEVELOPMENT of brain and intellect was 'he"ccio''
thc inc of variation by which one species was to
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which all life had hitherto existed AT what point
orr holfhup,an ancestor bocams endowed with
sonl of course we do not know. nor DO we know
| r,bc,cc came the soul THAT II cannot possibly
no the r,duct of any GINNING arrangement OF ma
tori, partcles il demonstrated beyond pcradVcht-
| IRE by what we now kaow OF the coircia t'oh Vi
physcal forces. The Platnnic view oi the soul as
| a spiritual substance, an eHiiehco froih "o"u'o",
which under certain conditions becomes lncarhatc"
:, norishable forms of matter is doubtless the view
| mos. consonant with tho present state OF our
| knowledge" But whatever the soul may De' IL Is
plain that according TO Mr. Fiskc'S interpretation
of natural processes. il ought to he TIC result OF
special creation although lie docs not use that eX
| preston and does use some expressions WHICH
| might be INTERPRETED III another sense
| Regarding Nan as the consumnaie frultloh OF
creative energy one is almost rresisJibly driven to
| the belief that tho souls career is not completed
wifi, the present life upOn the earth. 1t IS in the
highest degree unreasonable 10 inter that all TINS
work has been done for nothing that IT Is DuD-
bic that bursts vision that fades; that the Crea-
TORS work is like that of child, who bniids houses
| out of blocks ju,t for the pleasure OF knocking
| tbem dovn. 'For aught that science can tell us
| if NAV he So but can 40 good reason Tor be-
| loving any snch thing On su,h a view the riddle
| of the universe becomes a riddle without mean
| incr And 1.-The more thoroughly vs. comprehend
| that process of evolution by which things have
cone TO be what they are the more we arc likely to
feel that TO deny the everlasting persistence OF the
| spiritual element in Man is 10 rob the whole pre-
cess of its meaning" This Is only an outline OFT
| beginning and end of Mr.. Fishes argument
| and we must refer our readers TO the
| book itself for the ingenious and fore
| ibe chspters in which he traces the
| course o. psychica deyeopm mt the influence OF
| he lengtheniur of infancy upon that process and
| the probable course OF human progress in throwing
OFF the brute Inheritance and establishing on earth
a reign of universal pea AMI happiness. Mr..
riskes theory Of morals is altrnstie aud militia
rian, and the lryout Christian viii rcgt that his
conceptions Of good and evil seem 70 have no refef-
cnce to conformity with divine viii; Int so fat as
iis main subject Is concerned. his book is nnlnes-
ionably p6vcrrnl n.lieiurs a,euhent