Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-12-14
Scientific Considerations

II AA AC0~A 0A oANACAC III which the author characterises Oar wiuism as but a passing summer dream" 1 submit the following scientific considerations:
 To the narrow inherent develop ment hypothesis which assumes that the mental powers of the human being differ only in degree and not in kind with those of the animal. '" (Darwin's Descent of Man must be added the following unrefuted scien- tific inductions. As man possesses mental endowments not belonging to the animal kingdom, 1t IS clear that this thesis extends beyond the scope of the "materialistic develop ment hypothesis" Lamsrk) which assumes the growth from a lower to higher order but it also implies the existshce of 8 constant creating power, that has imparted to man . kind of mentality, a spirit" (Bible) that may interpet nature, may utilize her forces, and beyond the Temotest mental conception of the animal render reverence to an in- visible omniptence that does exist in theory" London Spectator The Darwin hypothesis which assumes that the human family only as pri- mates has descended" ascended through all of the terms of the ser les, from the lowest form of animal life to their present stage of physical development, is all there is of the Darwin hypothesis, and from recent discoveries his inductious are veri- fed and are no longer an hypothesis but unassaillable, immutahle fact. That the flora and fauna, including the species homo, that is around and among us, has sscended through unbroken links from lower and less perfect forms of past geological ages are facts of evolution simple enough for the mind to grasp. We need to retrospect but two terms in the organic series. Our remote an- ces.ors of the bronze age, with an average brain capacity of 1900 c. c. m., were, 1t is known, directly as- cended from the "Pithecantheropus erectus" of the stone age, an e1- tinct race of human primates known to be intermediate in form, in phys ical development and in brain ca pacity between the ape and the low est normal of the adult man. Be yond the beginning of the stone age and in the still dinner vista of the tertiary period scientists have fur ther learned from the geological register that an apelike mammal with a capacity of 500 c. c. m. was and Is the highest type of the animal kingdom. The order of as cent may be mathematicsllY ex- pressed in the following manner:
 Specie homo, our ancestors of the bronze age.
 Extinct pithecantropus erectus, the co meeting link.
 Ap,-like mammal the highest type of tt animal kingdom, 800 plus lO00 y equals 1500 xY.
 In modern times the increase of brain power and physique refine ment among civilized people are known to have progressed, and now ,he world is expecting another New ton and another Christ.
 200 C. c. NJ. plus x I 2 equals the new man of a new era that may Hume the earth from its intellectual obscurity. Owing to the cosrseness of our faculties (Maxwel) in the in vestigation of the invisible forces where inanimate forms do spring from chemical solutions, and in the phenomena of electric displace- ment and its concomitant magnetic induction, our sense of vision per ceives the effects and not the cause. Yet further and deeper we do see by "deductive and scientific inductive reason" (Logic) that organic life without predecessors originally sprang from inanimate earth. Even this implies the existence of an in- visible omnipotence, "tis bue part We see and not the whole" (Alex- ander Pope). The effect of these verified deductions will in the next century be most forceful in holding human belief more in harmony with truth. H. O.