The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-02-21

finest man wins her Now look at
the future He will have one son,
namely as himself, or at most four or
five children, these finest specimens of
the race are now exposed by nature to
the sayages Of smallpox, yellow fever,
pneumonia, consumption. The chan
ces are that three of them will be
borne away to the village graveyard |
before reaching maturity. Now take
the country loon. Does he become Il
recluse because he did not get the
woman of his choice? Not much: |
that is not his way; but he seeks out |
a country looness and together they
rear family of ten young looms, that |
are proof against smallpox, and his |
allied band, II left to the processes of |
nature would man ever become ciyiH- !
zed. No Tsir; she cares nothing for
civilization; God and the Bible must
look after that: The looms will finally
disappear from the earth, because OF
the refinement that flows. out from
loving hearts, in5 spite, of.@athe effort
Of nature to keep them looms.
Darwin gives Sexual Selection as
one Of the causes, and to show its pow
er, shows what it has accomplished in
the hand of man, and argues from this
that the slow processes OF nature,
working always through several MIL
lion years. all the whole evolution
would be wrong let,out, But does not
this show the limit to which the force
may act; varieties have been obtained
by man, but species never. This would
doubtless be the limitin nature, But
sloes nature slowly work in this way?
No, take the race OF dogs, all sizes,
from the huge mastiif the contempt
Die poodle. Why variation in size
and character? Man has selected like
specimens and governed the course of
nature, passing for a long number OF
years, large dogs to reap a large race,
small dogs for small race, poodles for
poodles, with the result that we see.
Now take the allied race of foxes, do
we find this wide range is size and
character? No, the foxes are all of
about the same size and are all alike
thus proving that nature in her own
course produces animals which ave all
modelled after the same pattern. Look
at the wild mallard ducks, millions Of
them and all alike, no sign ofvariation,
all perfect; and can you conceive Of
! It's being possible for the fox or the
wild duck to ever develop into any
thing else? The plan OF nature seems
to be, to perfect any species and the
fashion every individual after the same
perfect pattern. If you will study the
subject carefully you will find that all
animals, small and great, weak and
strong, Old and young, are constantly
reproducing themselves, with all their
4cuIiarties ofstrength and weakness,
which are added to the common stock
which, unless mcddled with by man,
remain unchanged and Interchangeable,
| have thus endovored to show that
Mr., Darwin, in attempting to explain
a supposed evolution, has cited two
forces which, ii forces at all, are GER
tainly weak ones, and wholly made
quate to cope with that almost unbend-
ing law Of nature which man with all
his powers can not break, the pcrma-
nency Of every species.
"Primate" misundcrstands myse can
inginregard to an Evolution of ideas
I | meant this That the first idea o.
notion of life which we discover in the
rocks is that of plant life, The motion
Of the seaweed when moved by the
current OF the ocean, suggests the idea
of unconscious motion, from internal
forces, and hence animal life, the low
est form Of animal life suggest in turn
the idea Of conscious motion as seen
in the higher forms Of animal life
This conscious motion foreshadows
intelligence, as seen in the dog and
horse This glimmering OF intellect.
uaI life is a dim prophecy OF the
coming man, being endowed with
fall intelligence as well as with moral
powers and spiritual longings. These
Iongings Of man in turn suggest the
idea Of spiritual existence. Thus
there is an evolution Of IDEAS, reach
ing from the first idea Of life in pro
toplasm on up to the highest archan'
gel in Heaven,
In conclusion, let me state once
more my belief: That this evolution
OF IDEAS may find in nature its coun
terpart in many instances, and that il
there be such an evolution it is due tC
as yet undiscovered causes, and that
the causes adduced by Mr.. Darwin are
powerless to work out such an evoIu
ton. NIMRoD.
P. SIN my second article tho
printers devil printed Ganajcjs, instead
of Ganoids; aud 7'aticoty, instead O
Teleosts. I suppose I wrote indis