The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-09-23

this gradual assimilation of species into
species. 1t ought not to be No slow and
uncertain because the relics of organ
isms are 80 numerous from the POST
tertiary way down to the Cambrian
age. Surely in two thousand years one
line ought To have been found. In the
wonderful progress and prowess of
mind, man has harnessed fire and
water to the chariot of science and
wheeled his way to the outposts of the
astIouomic dome and driven with
Jehuic holiness down the petrean de-
clivities of the geologic highways and
speeded his resistless, reckless voy age
amid the perils of the deep, deep blue,
bedecked his scientific mitre with
peariy gems out of old oceans deep,
roilef by the very portals of the jasper
walls where could slbut he heard the
paeans of undying rapture, and down
over the sulphuric paths hard by the
penal gates of dreamiess doom, where
of unmitigsted despair. Yet, alas his
iruitless search of centuries EFFORTS the
confession mot by transmutation but
substitution do species follow species"
Each species comes suddenly and in
full perfection, remains substantially
unchanged during life and passes away
in full perfection.
Again, FOurthly.-Why the scien-
tific whine that distinguished natural
lists persist in rejecting the metamor-
phosis theory? Because A. there are
great organic chasms without the bridge
of lineal connection, ~ there are great
organic leaps, and according to the
Development Hypothesis there should
he neither. When natural science
SHOULD be termed unnatural science)
accounts for these facts and phenomena
we will be ready to yield, willing to
abide the results.
Again, Fifthly.-If the Evolution
theory be true, as we trace the geneal-
ogy of the species back in time, orsan.
isms ought to grow more and more
simple until We come to mere sessile
cells, in the teDid shadows Of primeval
seas. But such IL not the fact. Chris
tian scientists in geologic chariots have
traversed every path back toward the
night Of ancient chaos, their journey
measured by millions OF years, bidding
adleu to verdant earth, down, down
through vast formations of the earth,
beyond the limits Of historic time.
where the lapse of time is marked, not
by successive seasons, but repeated
creations and at no period In the mys-
tic tour was there to be found fading
away of complex animal structures into
simpler forms. Take the Animal
Kingdom, from the age of man, down
through the age OF reptiles, through the
age of fishes, to the age of corals, the low
est. Take the Rock Kingdom, from the
post-tertiary, tertiary, cretaceous, carto-
niferous, devonisn, silurian, to the cam
brian, the lowest. Take the Plant
Kingdom, from the age of palms, of
pines, of acrogens, and to the last, the
age of algae, in none of these three do
mains do we find the clue spun In the
fabric OF development. Nowhere, no.
how have the advocates of natural
selection" Spontaneous generation"
shown a single fact in support Of the
assumption that the earth has been
peopled with all varieties of living
creatures by "fortuitous variations"
Mere fancies and analogies dexterously
woven together to give the appearance
of consistency and plausibility will not
suffice on question involving interests
so vital and momentous. Natures
plan, the system of animal types, the
symmetry of organization, the order of
age and stature, all bespeak intelligent
design in refutatiOn of accidental accre-
tiOns, or fortuitous variations. As to
the origin of man, one reply to the de-
velopment theory must be given as suf-
6cient. Merely because of similarities
of forms between man and any animal
is not sufficient to convince candid
mind that they had the same prehis-
toric orig in. There must be identity.
Because there is similarity in the shapes
of boats is no proof that they were
made in the same shop, by the same
hands.
Again. This theory OF identity Of the
human with the forest brutes teaches
suicide, infanticide, crimes so shocking
Iy prevalent. "The Survival OF, the Fit
test" means this. Proof Darwin, De-
scent of man, Vol. l page l6l. There
is reason to believe that vaccination has
preserved thousands, who from weak
constitutions would formerly have sue
cumbed to small pox. We civilized
men build asylums for the imbecile and
sick. Thus the weak members o. civil
lied societies propagate their kind.
This must be highly injurious to the
race of man." What do you think of
that? "Might is right" I see why inf
deity builds no asylums. Kill the
weak in mind and body. Let the
strong survive. SURVIVAL of the fit
test" indeed. Would Prof. Alexander
use such text book in his school? Are
there parents who would have such
stuff taught their children? Progress.
progress back to heathenism. These are
dangerous men il they but dared to
act their theory. Finally answer this:
How can you evolve that out of a
thing that is not involved in it? The
Oldest and the Old Testaments agree.
Man has always been man, the monkey
monkey. But to another part Of
my subject Man has a body, but he is a
spirit. There are two universes the