Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-06-28
ORIGIN OF MAN,
His Works, TEis Monuments, and His
 Life Eternal.
Dr paul Grernry.l

Or Paul Gregory0 NoGALEs, Ariz., June g, 1890. EDITOR CITIZEN
 We haye bssn reading Darwin, Illus lay and others, but whether We regard man as the highest type of animal, or sprung, fully endowed with kingly attributes, from the migh ty "King of Kings, hs sesms to be fitted by his very nature to rule, to conquer.
 Ws speak exultantly of the progress of the last two or three centuries. With their wonderful discoveries and achieve ments; and yet, as far down the vista of time as the mind can reach, we behold monuments of mans handiwoIk looming gran6ly out of the debris of years.
 Let the stupsndous workers of Egypt the sublime architecture. the life imbued canvass of the old world, the glorious of Honer and Virgil, testify to the truth of this.
 If the Darwinisn theory were true, man must be ot q kingly blood indeed who could thus raise himself into the reasoning; thinking bsiaZ ueedful to accomplish sll this.
 ! little Iaors than two centuries ago vide forest. and vast plains Sxtend- sd from ocean to ocean. Dnsky forms plotted higher and high ike grim spec ters; and the mighty rolling Hississlppi reflected lus birch canoe ot tIe savage, as he f!oated with the tide, and re-echoed only his koarse, gutteIal wild death song. A few years, the mighty arm of man has reached across the world of stormy waters: wherever his magic footsteps have fallen, there spring up in their stead the farm, the village, the city, and the voice of prayers and rises like the mist of morning to heaven.
 And whiis his giant arm has wlelded this power. the brain has achieved still greater wonders. From shore to shore the electric tide thrcbs with its intelligent pulsations. Like a winged creature he traverses the airy deep at his will. lie plucks, as it were, the stars from the sky and calling them by name, marks out their paths measures and weights them, as they whirl in brillian. EDdlnDA Cl HOIlOs OSlO4c 1Iitl" 1AS AaNA'AI the waters in the hollow of his hand, and brings the fiery elemsnts to aid him claims them to inaaimats objects, and they become endowed with life. Like king, the earth is but his footstool; and with eagle eye, he pirces the forest, the dimmest depths of space, and his ln' in- cible will brings earth, air and sky into subjection. A being seemingly omnlpotent invulnerable, eternal, he Is, who can thus achieve such miracles. 1et, like ths hero of old, there IS vulnerable point ID aIl this armor which encases thess giant forces. Like the coral builder, hts works are his monuments. Standing while the frail casket crumbles into dust.
 The years sweep swiftly by while these works are approaching completion, and men fade as flowers. The higher the rock the greater the front 1t presents to the storm. The waves of time rise higher and higher, the years roll on, and soon the firm step grows tottering, the atrong arm feeble, the piercing eve dim ed, and the energetic mind fails of It's quick intelligence.
 From out the dim, dark future comes the tread of phantom feet. Ever and anon q faint. warming cry is heard upon the ai:, like foreteller of doom. And in the stllly night, ghostly form stands besides us, and smites us with colo white hand. The morning comes, Snd fast locked in icy letters, cur hands are stilled and our voices silent eVermore.
 Ahl tis the king of terrors; and we, like helpless slaves, crouch under his triumphal car as it moves relentlessly onward.
 A sad oIding indeed for such one But look! Far of in the east rises star It glows and brighteIs with unearthly radiance as 1t comes softly nearer. A still small voice breaks upon the listen iBg silence. 1t IS ]" :"
 A form of wondrous beauty comes from out the radiant glow, and, stepping over the fettered, inanlmate clay, end opening the prison doors bids the life long prisoner arise.
 Clad in armor of dazzling brightness the newly freed mind wings its way un- scathed past fire and flood and thunder bolt-past world and star-far beyond time, into intinity itself; an heir to a throne eternal