The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-08-27

tion, there are many that do not be-
lieye it. Among them, the man who
by most is considered the greatest
scientist we ever had this side Of the
water-Agassiz- A name that makes
every intelligent man the earth over
uncover.
Agassiz says: The manner in which
the evolution theory In zoology Is
treated leads those whoare not special
biologists to suppose that observations
have been made by which it can be In.
ferred that there is in nature such q
thing as change among organized be-
ings actually taking place. There 10
no such thing on record. 1t is shift.
ing the ground of observation from
one field of observation TO another 70
make this statement, and when the
assertions go so far as. 10 exclude from
the domain Of science those who will
not be dragged into this mire OF mere
assertion then it is time to protest.
There is one tenet of evolution which
IT is demanded we adopt, that which
Darwin calls Natural Selection" and
that which Wallace calls the Sur
vival of the Fittest" BY this they
mean that the human race and the
brute creation are all the time improv.
ing because the weak die and the
strong live. Those who do not die
survive because they are the fttast
They say the breed of sheep and cattle
and dogs and men is all the time i'm.
proving, naturally improving. No
need of God, or any Bible, or any rell.
gion, but just natural progress.
You see the ace started with 'spon.
famous generation" and then It goes
right on until Darwin can take Us IN
with his natural selection" and Wal.
lace with his survival Of the fittestH
and so we 60 right on up forever.
Beautiful But do the httest surviyeY
Garfield dead in September-Gulteau
surviving until the following June,
Survival Of the fttest?" Ali no.
The martyrs, religious and political,
dying for their principles, their bloody
prosecutors living on to old age. "sur.
vval OF the httestP" Five hundred
thousand brave northern men march.
ing out 10 meet 500, 900 brave southern
men, and die on the battlefield for q
principle. Hundreds OF thousands Of
them went down into the grave
trenches. We stayed at home in com
Portable quarters. Did they die be
cause they were not as fit to live as W,
who survivedY Ali no; not the 'sur
ylyal Of the fttest" Ellsworth ant
Nathaniel Lyon falling on the north
ern side. Albert Sidney Johnston and
stonewall Jackson falling on III,
southern side. Did they fall becaus,
they were not as 1T to live as the sol
Oilers and the generals who came baoI
In saietyP No Bitten with the frost
OF the second death be the tongue tina
dares utter i'll
But to show you that this doctrine
Is a~ntagonistic 10 the Bible and Il
common sense have only TO prove 4
you that there has been no natura
progress. Vast improvement from an
other source, but mind you, no natu
raj progress. Where is the hne hors,
In any OF our parks whose picture o
eye and name and nostril and necl
n launches Is worthy Of being com
pared TO jobs picture Of a horse as h
thousands Of years ago heard It paw
n neigh and champ its bit for In,
battleP Pigeons of to-day not .
wise as the carrier pigeons of SO
years ago-pigeons that carried III
mails from army 10 army and from
city TO city; one OF them flung int,
the sky at Rome or Venice landln,
without ship or ralltrain In London
And as 10 the human race. n, Ear n
mere natural progress is concerned
once there were men ten feet hlVh
now the average is about Ave feet III
igehes y started With men living 400
400, 800, 900 years, and now 10 yeara 4
more than the average Of human llfe
Mighty progress we have made, haven
WEI went into the cathedral a
York, Eng, aud the best artists Il
England had just been painting a win
dow IN that cathedral, and right be
side 1t was a window painted 400 year
ago and there Is not a man on eartl
but would say that the modern paint
ing OF the window by the best artist
OF England Is mol worthy OF beln,
compared with the painting of 20
years ago right beside It. Vast in
provement, as shall show o ia
minute or two, but no natural eyolu
tion.