Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-20

6AouAu VI ouhoTNbUlCu ITUIN DIG uelQ OF
observation to another to make this
statement, and when the assertions 20
so far as to exclude from the domain of
science those who will not be dragged
into this mire Of mere assertion then it
Is time to protest"
With rual vehemence against the
doctriSo Of evolution Hugh Miller,
Farraday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson and
hundreds Of scientists in this country
and other countries have made protest.
l know that the few men who have
adopted the theory make more noise
than the thousands who have rejected
1t. The Bothnia Of the Cunard line took
500 passengers safely from New York
to Liverpool. Not one of the 500 made
any excitement. But after we had been
four days out, one morning, we found
on deck man S hat and coat and vest
and boots, implying that some one had
jumped overheard. Forthwith we all
began to talk about that one man. There
was more talk about that one man over
board than all the 500 passengers that
rode on in safety. "Why did he jump
overboard?" II wonder when be jumped
overboard?" II wonder if when he
jumped overheard he would liked to
have jumped back again." II wonder if
fish caught him or whether he went
clear down to the bottom of the scar"
And for three or four days aftcrward
we talked about that poor man.
Glorious Theory.
Here is the glorious and magnificent
theory that God by his omnipotent pow.
er made man, and by his omnipotent
power made the brute creation, and by
his omnipotent power made all worlds,
and 500 scientists have taken passage
OH board that magnificent theory, but
10 or Is have jumped overheard. They
make more talk than all the 500 that
did not jump. l am politely asked to
jump with them. Thank you, gentle
men, am very much obliged to you. l
think 1 shall stick to the old Cunarder.
If you want to jump overheard, jump
and test for yourselves whether your
hand was really fish's fin, and wheth-
er you were webfooted originally, and
whether your lungs are swim blad-
der. And as in every experiment there
must be division of labor, some who
experiment and some who observe, you
make the experiment and will observe.
There is one tenet of evolution which
it is demanded we adopt, that which
Darwin calls "natural selection" and
that which Wallace called the Survival
of the fittest. By this they mean that
the human race and the brute creation
are ell the time improving because the
weak die and the strong live. Those
who do not die survive because they are
the fittest. They say the breed Of sheep
and cattle and dogs and men is all the
time improving, naturally improving
No need of God or any Bible or any re-
ligion, but just natural progress
You see the race started with "spon-
taneous generation" and then it goes
right on until Darwin can take us up
with his natural selection" and Wal
lace with his Survival Of the fittest, y
and so we go right on up forever.
Beautiful! But do the fittest survive!
Garfield dead in Experimentation
surviving until the following June.
Survival of the fittest?" All, no! The
martyrs, religious and political. dying
for their principles, their bloody perse'
cutors living OH to old age. "Survival
of the fittest?" Five hundred thousand
brave northern men marching out tt
met 500, 900 brave southern men anc
die on the battlefield for principle
Hundreds of thousands Of them wen
down into the grave trenches. W.
staid at home in comfortable quarters
!, Did they die becauA they were not al
fit to live as we who survived? All, no
? not the Survival Of the fittest." Ellis
worth and Nathaniel Lyon falling OF
the northern side. Albert Sidney John
stou and Stonewall Jackson falling OF
the southern side. Did they fall be
cause they were not AS fit to live as tn
. soldiers and the generals who cam
back in safety? No. Bitten with TIL
frosts Of the second death be the tongu
. that dares utter it. 1t is not the "sur
y vival of the fittest.
Fittest DO Not Survive.
How has it been in the families OF tn
world? How was it with the chill
I physically the strongest, intellectual
y the brightest, in disposition the kindes1
Did that child die because it was not a
q fit to live as those of your family tina
y survived? Not "the survival of the fiji
test" In all communities some OF tn
q noblest, grandest men dying i'll youth c
;. in midlife, while some Of the meanes
a and most contemplate live on to oil
Il age. Not "the survival of the fittest.
3 But to show you that this doctrine
4 antagonistic to the Bible and to commo
g sense have only to prove to You thu
- 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 OF
y parks whose picture Of eye and mar
~ and nostril and neck and launches
% worthy of being compared to Jobs pi
- ture of a horse as he, thousands
~ wears ago, heard it paw and neigh al
=. champ its bit for the battle? Pigeons
~ today not so wise as the carrier pigeol
!, of 500 years ago-pigeons that carrie
the mails from army to army and FRO
II ., city to city, one of them flung into Il
~ ~ sky at Rome or Venice landing witho
% shin or rail train in London. Look
- the great animals that walketh the ear
=. 40 in olden times-animals compared wi
:. which in size our elephant is CO
monsters of olden times that swan
M Deep compared with which our wha
'es is a minnow. Comics have learned not
40 ing about climbing and the houn
~ nothing about hunting and the ostrl
as nothing about Matching and the cond
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