The Newtown bee., 1897-08-20
NUMBER B.
friends in Bridgeport, making the jour- ney on his bicycle.
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION CONSIDERED.

"If evolution Is true, life is a tragedy ;'' says Rev F. K. Mason. Although the above declaration may be considered radical one, yet in view of the fact that man being created in Gods image, the writer cannot refrain from comparing the assumptions of especially primitive eVolutionists, to voice cryizg in the wilderness of material labyrinths that man evolved from the protoplasm, up through the different. kingdoms to his present attainment. We pause to in- quire of these learned propagsndIsts if the leopard can change his spots? Much less rose, lily, tree. or animal, etc., change their identity.
 fman were once tadpole CT & mon- key, the sooner the occurrence is obliter- ated from his memory, and he ceases to refer to his ancestors the better. Re- garding other orders of expression, we ask if evolution is a fact, continued evoivement must necessarily obtain in every manifestation, why go back to Froebel for our Kindergarten. Froebel. once 8 pupil of Pestalozzi, while out walking one day, the word kindergarten flashing upon his consciousness caused him to exclaim, II will name my idea Kindergartenp' His system hsSfng re- ceived the unqualified endorsement of leading educators of our time, furnishes unmistakeable evidence that further eVolvement is unnecessary.
 Granting that the watchword of the hour is progress, it need not necessarily follow that progression is evolution ex- cept as we allow the evolution to be in the mind, and not in the expression it. self; for instance, one behoIding & finely executed photograph, exclaims, ''that is grand artistic production-an evoIu- sAoA AO OAA E44lAu. tue eVOlQLlOn LIT any) is not in the picture. or even in the camera; but in the mind of the artist: in other words the picture is the embodf- ment, or specialization of the artists mind; for the source of all phenomena is thought, or mind in manifestation. Moreover the realm of potentiality is the realm of instability, and there belng but one power in the universe in multi farious ways, and degrees of expression, why confine our attention to the spat- tering edge of the great fountain of universal expression.
 Again, there would be no evolution unless preceded by involution, as it requires two halves to make & whole; in other words, nothing can evolve until previously involved, for the principle must necessarily compass the whole circuit from the seeming unmanifest to the manifest.
 1t is indeed refreshing to quote the learned metaphysician, Henry Wood who says: Truth fig eternally and un- changeably complete; but the human consciousness it is constantly growing" Prof Davidson touches the same chord iH This declaration, ''The eternal Is the only fact-the rest is phenomenal; ;" each seeming to conspire in relegating evolution to limbo. Man must give up the "ghost" of human illusion, and awaken to the fact that, in the begin ping was the word-not in the end; also that Gods universe was "finished" at the creation, and nothing can be added. Hence 1t is God in the beginning, and God through all eternity. Any other hypothesis is on shifting sand, leading into diseordant phenomena.
 Note Persdventure the inquiry should arise relative to the cause of the writer's failure to keep step with grander minds advocating evolutionary ideas, our re- ply is-because we heard another drum mer.-[D. R. French.