The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-22

ically the strongest intellectually the
brightest, In disposition tho kindostp Did
live as those Of your family that survived
Not "the survival Of the flttest" In oil
communities some of the noblest, grand
est men dying In youth or in midlife
while some Of the meanest and most con
temptible live on to old age. Not 1.-THE
survival Of the fittest. +"
But to show you that this doctrine II
antagonistic to the Bible and to common
sense have only to provo to you that
there has been no natural progress. Vast
improvement from another source but
mind you, no natural progress. Where is
the fine horse in any Of our parks whose
picture of eye and name and nostril and
neck and launches Is worthy Of being
compared to Jobs picture Of horse as he
thousands Of years ago heard 1t paw and
neigh and champ Its bit for the battlei
Pigeons Of today not 80 wise as the carrier
pigeons Of 500 years ago-pigeons that
carried the mails from army to army and
from city to city, one Of them flung into
the sky at Rome or Venice landing with
out ship or rail train In London. Look at
the great animals that walked the earth In
olden tlmes-animals compared with
which In size our elephant 10 oat-mon-
sters Of olden times that swan the deep,
compared with which our whale Is min
now. Comics have learned nothing about
climbing, and the hounds nothing about
hunting, and the ostrich nothing about
Matching, and the condor nothing about
flying and the owl nothing about musical
cadences for 5000 years. Not particle
Of progress.
And az to the human race, 30 far as
mere natural progress Ia concerned, once
there were men 10 feet high; now tho av-
erage ia about feet inches. It started
with men living 200, 400, 800, 900 years,
and now 80 yean Is moro than the aver
age Of human life. Mighty progress we
have made, haven't WEI l went into the
cathedral at York, England, and the best
ARTISTS in England had Just boon painting
window in that cathedral, and right be-
side 1t was o window painted 400 years
ago, and there 10 not man on earth but
would say that the modern painting Of the
window by the best artists of England Is
not worthy oc being compared with the
pfsIulDB "a wv yOhlp oBo AASuU buoIAo A.
Vast improvement, as I shall show you
In minute OF two, but no natural evolu-
tiOn.
Look at China, where evolution has had
full swing for thousands Of years uninter
fupted by anything except here and there
mission station with this defunot book,
the Bible, but through the most Of the
realm not interfered with What has eyo-
luton done for Gilman Christian civiliSa-
tion goes in and builds q railroad; they
tear it up. For 1000 years the Chinese
nation, where II is not invaded by the Cos
pei, has not made -hundyed-m mil
lionth part of an inch Of Advancement.
They worship the same gods Of red paint.
just as always they drown the female
children as a nuisance. Just as always
they eat with ohopsticks. 30 In India, SO
in Arabia, so In Turkey, so everywhere
where the gospel has not made an invasion.
Evolution Downward.
I tell you, my friends, that natural evo-
luton Is not upward, but 1t is always
downward Hear Christ's account Of It,
Fifteenth Matthew and nineteenth verse,
"Ont Of the heart proceed OWL thoughts,
murders, adulteriee, -orpioations, thefts,
false witness, blasphe;nies." That Is what
Christ said of evolution. Give natural
evolution full swing In our world and 1t
will evolve into two hemispheres Of crime,
two hemispheres Of penitentiary, two hem-
ispheres Of lazaretto, two hemispheyes Of
brothel New York Tombs, Moyamensins
prison, Philadelphia Seven Dials, London
and Cowgats, Edinburgh, only fostering
carbuncles on the face and neoh Of natural
evolution. Sec what the Bible says about
the heart and then what evolution says
about the hoart Evolution says, Better
and better and better gets the heart by
natural improvement" The Bible says:
"The heart Is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked Who can know
IT." When you can evolve fragrance t1um
malodoY, and can evolve an oratoYio from
a buzzsaw, and can evolve fall pippins from
o basket Of decayed crab apples, then you
can by natural evolution from the human
heart develop goodness All, my friends,
natural evolution Is always downwardi it
10 never upward.
What is remarkable about this thing Is
II Is all the time developing Its dishonesty.
In our day 1t Is ascribing this evolution to
Herbert Spencer and Charles DAWN. 1t
Is dishonesty. Evolution was known
and advocated hundreds Of years before
these gentlemen began to be evolved. The
Ph9niciaps thousands Of years ago do
clared that the human race wabbled out Of
the mud. Democritus, who lived 400
years before Christ-remember that |
knew this doctrine of evolution when hs |
said: Everything is composed Of atoms,
or infinitely small elements, each with u !
definite quality form and movement,
whose inevitable union and separation
shape all different things and forms, laws
and efforts, and dissolve them again for
new combinations. The gods themselves
and the human mind originated from such
atoms. There arc NO casualties. Every
thing Is necessary and determined by the |
nature Of tho atoms which have certain |
mutual afIinities, attractions and repul-
sions." Anoximander centuries ago de-
claYed that the human race started at the |
place where the sea saturated the earth. |
Lucretius developed long centuries ago, In
his poems, the doctrine Of evolution.
1t is an old heathen corpse set up in q
Charles Darwin and Herbert
Spencer have tried to galvanize 1t. They
drag this old putrefaction Of 5000 years
around the earth, boasting that 1t is their
and 80 wonderful Is tho infat-
uation that at tho Delmonico dinner given
in honor Of Herbert Spencer some Is years
ago there were those who ascribed TO him
this great originality of evolution. There
the banqueters sat around the table In
honor Of Herbert Spencer chewing beef
and turkey and roast pig, which, according
to their doctrine Of evolution. made them
eating their own relationsl Slicing up
their own cousinsl Driving carving
fork into thar beloved kindredl Dashing
sauce, bedaubing mustard
over their uncles and auntsl And while
Herbert Spencer road q patronizing lecture
to ALler,cans the banqueters sat around
the table with their hands up, saying,
Dear me, 1t Is tho voice Of q god and not
Of mani"
Evolution . Heather Doctrine.
There Is only one thing worse than
English snobbery and that Is American
l like democracy and I like
but there is ono kind OF
oor,cp In tbio couptrv that aycitna nv