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

cess is entitled "Natural Selection.
An expression self>contradictory an,
absurd, for selection without volition i
an unheard-of doctrine. Added to thi
Is the doctrine of gradual variation.
Hear Mr.. Darwin, page 1853, Origin o
Species Life was originally breathe,
by the Creator into "A few simple forum
or into ons.n Again on page 1876, De
scent of Man. ITO man / give a pedi
gree Of prOdigious length, IL not o
noble quality" An Ascidian, ma
rine, invertebrate creature il asserted
to be our most ancient progenitor. Oh
page 2O5 We read "Unless we wilfull,
close our eyes, we may, with our pres
ent knowledge, approximately recog
nize our parentage nor need we fee
ashamed Of it," Indeed Mr.. Darwin
felt ashamed OF il and therefore tried Il
brush away the blush of shame that
might mantle the cheek of others
Two thousand and four hundred year,
ago Democritus maintained that AL
things are the result of ''the fortuitous
concourse of atoms" What Demo-
critus called fortuitous atoms. Mr..
Darwin calls minute variations"
Scientific progress. Progress backwards
Trying to put the nineteenth century
back into the heather age Of Greece in
the very childhood of ignorance This
theory of evolution attempts to over
throw the Mosaic cosmOgony and de-
MES the doctrine Of the Divine Incar>
nation. Yet Mr.. Darwin tells us "he
can see no good reason why the views
he has given to the world should shock
the religious feelings of any" Mr..
Darwin's title t. his book Descent of
Man, instead of Ascent of Man, puts a
premium on the monkey and discount
Oh man. II his theory Toe true man is
not immortal, ergo is not moral, ergo is
not responsible, ergo can not sin, ergo
needs no SAVIOUR, ergo there is no future
life. Or else, if his the Dry be true, the
worm-like Ascidian, our first parent,
was immortal and all else that follows.
We would like 70 know at what time,
and in what manner the dying brute
produced al immortal man. Or If man
he merely mortal.
"Whence this pleasing hope this fond desire
This longing after immo. tality9
Or whence this secret dread and inward
honor
OF falling into naughts
Why shrinks the soul back ON herself,
And startles at destruction ."
The theory of natural development"
Is but hypothesis, an imagined
scheme. To attempt to account for the
phenomena of animated nature with
out the intervention of Divine Power is
fraught with inexplicable difficulties
without the shadow of proof, and
counter to the conclusions of natural
reason. Beyond a few speculative
minds leading men have denounced il j..
Mr.. Darwin himself's obliged 70 confess
this. On page i2s, Origin of Species,
he says, "Authors of the highest emf
hence seem to be fully satisfied with
the view that each species has been
Independently created" Why are
they thus fully satisfied ?" First
Because it has never been known in
any age or country of the world that
one animal species ever produced diff
ferent species. Varieties exist in the
same family, but a distinct species
never. The lines of demarkation never
cross between species and species, never
by natural selection. BY the artificial
interference Of man a cross may be ma
hipulated, but even here the generation
nuns out. The mule never breeds. As
six thousand years fail to record for us
. single instance Of natural population
between different species surely sixty
thousand years could not effect such
momentous, monstrous impossibillty.
Spontaneous generation Is very fine
theory but il has no counterpart In fact.
Even Prof. Huxley says, strongly biased
as he is, in his Lay Sermons, No. IL:
There is no instance in which group
of animals having all the characters
by species in nature, has ever
been originated by selection, whether
natural or artificial" Again Secondly
Why do eminent scientists reject
this theory, AS Mr.. Darwin deplores
Because they find an insuperable bar
to natural development set ul in na>
ture.
THE IMPASSABLE BAR OF SrERILITY,
BARRENNEss.
The Shetland pony and the Yemen
will produce their kind with
out check. But different species, even
in the case of the domestic goose and
the large Muscovy duck will not, can
not propagate their species. Hybridism
among animals, in a state of nature,
is unknown. OF the 2SS wild species
Of the pigeon family no two of them
pair together. OF the four hundred
species Of the humming- bird no two
different ones ever cOpulate. Mr..
Gould, after twenty years experiment
with these birds, gives this testimony.
Even Mr.. Huxley in his Origin of
species, page l4l, says, at is admitted
on all hands that il has not been found
possible to produce complete physical
divergence by selective breeding"
Here then stands the provoking, pers
picking Law of Hybridity square across
The Theory of Development. Hear Mr..
Origin of Species, page 245,
"To grant to different species the
special power of producing hybrids,
and then to stop their further propa,
CATION by different degrees of sterility, |
seems a strange arrangement" Keep
Dn Bro. Darwin aud you will find the