The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-07


is the accepted doctrine of biological
science, and do not know stand
ard authority in experimental and
practical biology that questions its
truth.
Professor John Draper says: "Evo-
luton holds that from one or a few
original organisms all those that we
see have been derived by process of
evolving or development. 1t will not
admit that there has been any intro
duction of divine power" This is
practical atheism. 1t really shuts
God out of the universe. He is no
longer a real factor in life, society,
history and progress. This is God
less world, and man is spiritual or
phan.
Professor Joseph L. Conte says:
ITO the deep thinker, now and al
ways, there is and has been the alter
native-materialism or theism. God
operates nature or nature operates
itself" We have seen that according
to the philosophy of evolution nature
operates itself. God is not in it.
There is no room for him in the uni
verse, and nature has no need for his
presence and action. In the judg-
ment of evolutionists, then, material
ism and not theism presents the true
solution of the world-problem.
w. S. Lilly says: "Either nature
is the outcome of intellect, or the in
tellect is the outcome of nature"
Evolution teaches us that all intel
lect we know by consciousness and
experience is the outcome of nature.
Like life it is one of the forms in
which certain physical forces mani
fest themselves-like light and heat
it is mode of motion. But if this
be true the question arises, What is
it that moves and what power moves
it? The answer of evolution is: The
ether moves itself.
Says George Won Gitzycki: "The
investigation has to break with the
ology in all its forms, and even in
ethics the question of the object of
the destiny of man has to be given
up" This scientific evolutionist, not
satisfied with banishing God from
the universe, would take theology, re-
ligion and ethics out of human life
and thought. In this philosophy the
universe has no God, man has no di-
vine Father, no religion, no duty, no
destiny, no hope. He was born of
the action of physical forces, was era
! died in them, lives by them, and will
| be absorbed by them when life ends.
Man cannot be regarded as an en-
tirety. The Being who has created
language, literature, art, science, phil
osophy, law and government is a non
entity. The moral person who has
organized the family and builded the
home, formed governments, estab-
lished institutions, created civiliza-
tions, founded empires, instituted
churches, inaugurated reforms and
caused revolutions, to this scientific
and astute evolutionist has no exist
ence. Here we have the perfect flow
er and the ripe fruit of the evolu'
ton philosophy. This is its logical
outcome. 1t is the legitimate conclu-
sion from it's premises. 1t started
without rational personality and ends
by refusing to recognize the existence
of ANYTHING higher than machine.
Lanarck says: "Life is purely a
physical phenomenon. All the phe-
nomena of life depend upon purely
mechanical, physical and chemical
causes, which are inherent in the ma
ture of matter ITSELF" This eyolu-
ZIONIST places life and all its manifes-
tations on the plane of physics-as
originating in physical causes and
under physical laws. This theory OF
life, which is necessary to the philoso-
ply of evolution, destroys the person
atty, freedom and responsibility of
man, and with it the very foundation
of the moral order of society, and the
natural basis of civil and criminal
law.
Grant Allen says: "Now, the evolu-
zionist repudiates the notion of crea-
ton in its ordinary sense. He be-
lieves that the operation of natural
causes working in their accustomed
manner was alone adequate to bring
into existence kind of matter pre-
senting a new order of completely,
and displaying the phenomena which
we generalize under the word life"
This is specimen of the confused
metaphysics of scientific evolution,