New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-05
THE ORIGIN OF MIND.
DRUMMOND'S SECOND LECTURE
AT CHAUTAUQUA.
LINES OF EVIDENCE FOR THE THEORY OF EVo'
LUTON CUssED-INDEPENDENcE
TDY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRibrNE'I

fDY TELEGRAPH TO IiIt Ihih'Nh'I
Chauanaua y y. July 4-The Fourth OF July
was quietly celebrated here with an occasoh'i hr'
crocke, decorations Of the cottages and hotel with
flags and bnn,nr and festoons Of coored lights among
the frees The chimes early this morning rang ""'
patriotic tunes and this evening there We're hre
works on the lake front. Formal independence Day
exercises were held in the Amph'hea're inns morn
i,c when Miss Jean Slec. OF Brooklyn, sang several
National airs the audience Joining In the chorus
The Rev f. ~ Packard. OF syracuse. read the
Declaration OF Independence and was followed by
Hermann F. Van Waist professor OF history IN the
University Of Chicago and author OF The 'ohsu'"
tiona History OF the United states" VINO eAprcsS"
dSapprcval Of great noises to snow Na'lohh s''''
ness This he SAYS. l. business which savagos
have always understood better than CIVILIZED NATIONS
The patriots in Philadelphia In 1910 went about
everything I'm n 1ulct way. They Strengthened them
selves ND and quietly put their names 10 the D'clarh
,,cn ~ Indcpcndence They did not rails" their
voices above the usual pitch. but they made noise
with tho scratch OF their pens such as the world hau
never heard before. whose sound went through fu'op
and the whole world, and has never become sun ana
never will. The critical period for che American
people was not from 1916 10 1893 but from ''3
TO 1880 After fighting Great Britain they had n
greater enemy to fight and to cJnquor-theHS"NeN'
independent they were so far as Great britain was
concerned. Independent because they wore Wiling
and able 10 take tho responsibility that these Fights
responsibility IS the handspring Of true democracy
Referring to tho many questions propounded to him
NJ the close OF Yesterdays lecture Professor Drum
mond said to-day that he shonld Ike to REMIND 'h'
audience that he Is not responsible for III" EVOLUTION
theory. and that he did not make man the way ne
+, made. To the question. was man made III 'ou'S
Image he answered yes, ana That IL was zone ny 'ne
processes Of evolution.
In introducing the subject Of The Origin OF Mind
on which Professor Drnmmond spoke this afternoon.
ne said there are certain types Of animal archi-
lecture and the body Of man IS III" highest TYPE III
that architecture nature ever made. or over VIII
mako. There are a number Of shcfsh which lived
wears ago and ran out to III" end OF their tether
and have never grown any higher 80 there seem
to be types Of architecture In natural form.
Professor Drummond said that when the nina Is
affected by certain disease is progress downward can
often be followed step by step. II does not tumble
down I'm moment into chaos. but In definite order.
The order OF descent Is the inverse OF the order OF
ascent The first faculty to 90 Is the last iacurty
which arrived The next faculty Is affected next
the whole spring uncong. rs II were, In the order
and direction I'm which, presumably, 1t had D''h
wound MP That the highest part Of Fan should
o,ier first IS on the theory Of mental evolution, to
hc expected The highest part IS the last added
part and tho latest added part IS the least secured
par As the last arrival /, not yet ut home, has not
had time 10 get lnstncy imbcdded In the BRAIN tho
compotiton Of older faculties is against II, tho hold
~ will upon II Is slight and htful, It's tenure ~
a tenant +, precarious and often threatened.
After discussing other lines Of evidence, tho speaker
allud.d 10 assumed ma.rialiStic implications, ana
said that those who yield 10 the temptation TO re-
serve a point here and there for special divine In
tcrpo-itlon are scarcely that this virtually eN
cludcs God from the r'st Of the process. II ""i
appear, periodically He disappears periodically II
lie come, upon the scene AT special crises, lie Is
absent from the son" I'm the interval. which Is
tho nohlcr theory. all God or occasional God Ana
a., Ia facts the daily miracle Of flower tn" courses
Of the stars. the UNFOLDING and sustaining OF all
living things, needs God a. much a.
the creation ~ matter. The God Of
evolution Is greater than itN wonder working. why
some men gIudce each oi the fresh claims OF evolution
to show how things have been made seems 10 IL
the fear that II discover how things are made We
mirisze their divinity. When things are known
they ar. thought human. natural or mans level
Tomorrow the Chautauqun College OF Liberal Arts
Will hr,iu is regular sessions, the enrolment OF
pupils having gone on TO-DAY