Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-07-28
oRiGtN OF MAN.
Manhood Has Nat Descended From the Ape---1he Missing Link Cioses
 the Gan.
IpY HARMON OrMsrEADl

IVSts tue OEcCidn saNaut, dnQ 0Oiulh- bus, the discoverer, possessed minds within largo and active brains, and the manner of their exit from the world has been an object lesson for succeeding centuries.
 In recent times among a multi tude of active, brainy men, there IS Rant, Cuyier, Frankiia, Webster, and We now have a BlsmaTk, The latter, with a cranium capacity of l965 C. C. NJ is the nearest approx imatiou to tho theoretical maximum that has been recorded. It may here be observed, and has been affirmed by eminent geologists, that in all epochs thero has been constant and gradual increase in the size Of the brain of the dominant species, and is shown by the figures of the three races already mentioned. It will not be inferred from these measurements, however, that m average man possesses but triple the mental capacity and scope of know ledge as the gorilla, because he may carry brain but three times as large, or that Franklin, Cuvier or Webster were scarcely fourth greater in mental grasp and wisdom than an ordinary man, because their brains were scarcely a fourth larger. Nor must 1t be inferred that cranium capacity alone indicates meDtal cali Der, as the condition, for and quality of the brain appear as potent factors associated with intellectual and other mental powers.
 Resuming the interpretation ol the life recorded introductory to the advent of mankind, so far as the record is within tho scope of oul power of interpretation, the theO- logical savants and scientific think, CTS may agree tha; before the close of the quarternary period, the des- cended successors of the midway race became possessed with human endowments. These added human endowments mark the dawn of the Phychozoic era.
 The transition to the bronze and rapid advance in the iron ago is iu accord with law of progress that has obtained since the beginning ol the world. Seeing from the present it appears that the accumulated knowledge of the latter portion oi the present century and now dis. coveries, with their practical appli. cation to the wants and require. ments of mankind. have increased with geometric rae. Now, as each individual in the enjoyment of life liberty and the pursuit Of happi- ness" is a subject of law, natural humane and divine, it may be affirmed that when the social equi, librium is disturbed, and the pres, sure of the body polite becomes strong enough for reform, then s genius may arise equal to the emer. gency and conservative forms will readjust to the requirements of the equilibrium, "the greatest good tC the greatest number" without com promising individual rights. Here 1 l will not refrain from the remarL that it is we'll for him who teaches beginners to recognize that while knowledge is power, morality and religion binds the whole super structure of the pillars of society Reatlirmiug our faith in an over ruling Providence, the hope Of he world rests with reasoning, account able man We proceed in logical manner. though possessing limit, d knowledge of the past and the at tainments of the present, to deduce conclusions on the probable future destiny of mankin", as he final link tn the great chain of causation. differences indicate that organic life mind and spirit have appar- ently risen with geometrical pro | gression.
 The rlse Of life has evid nly pro | gressed at a geometTIc rate. if We compare the evidence of the slow development and transformation nf the lower orders during the long geological periods with the rapld rise of mind to conscious inteilI- gence in the far briefar and recent epoch.
 The following exclamations of conscious intelligence are here given as an example showing that the hu- man mind, compared with that of the animal, evidently differs in kind as we'll as in degree:
 Art l love
 God and nature I adorel
 1 will warm both hands before the fire of life!
 When it goes out, I am ready to departl
 Progress is further, not only illus trated in the imprint of geological successions, but also by living indi- viduals Of the highest order of hu- man nature. Hence, belief is not only a rational, but also a logical necessity that the best endowed amid favorable encOuragements, will continue to rise in the ascending mental scale, as epoch succeeds epoch.
 We may further logically infer from mans capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, that a portion of the human rac9 may in form of body and brain development attain physical perfection. And that portion of the dominant race may become endowed with pew born faculties which, together with his heriditary mental, such as we now possess, will enable the future man to more rapidly make applications Of new discoveries for his own and | for the general benefit of mankind. | And though we have seen by indue- 1 tive reasoning, that organic forms spraug, as it were, from from inanimate matter, which in | itself does imply the existence of a source or fountain of life, and we now see an order of intelligence around us, and though we have learned that by inexorable law, man has risen at the very head of the organic scale Darwin. Yet, unless the general level of humanity can rise, there may be no further |