The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-01

a picture In his mind toward which he
worked up. He plays no harmonic tricks
for the sake of showing his originality,
but develops the idea in the harmony with
the directuess and naturalness of the re-
alist. 1t is the realization of his emotion
or thought that he seeks and finds.
Charles Darwin's work.
Charles Darwin CS09-1SS2) gave the cen
fury not only theory he gave it a prin-
ciple Take away evolution from the
thought of our age and ii is robbed of its
richest treasures The young naturalist
who returned from five years trip on
the Beagle" was prepared to doubt the
dogma then generally received of the per-
manence and invariabiity of species but
he was not yet ready with the explana-
ton of the how" the process by which
one species might develop from another.
IL was only when he had hit upon the
theory of Natural Selection" that he felt
sure of the truth of evolution. He hesl-
tated long about publishing his theory, Tor
he knew that It would arouse a storm Of
opposition, and he was naturally of re-
firing and peaceable disposition. Only
when his junior Alfred Russell Wallace,
was about 10 make announcement of the
theory long since made known TO the cir
Gle of his friends by Darwin did he come
forward with the proofs which he had
accumulated in support of evolution. The
storm burst as ne GAlDeClG1, Dbl uul ms liAt
fifty years that have elapsed since the
publication OF the "Origin of Species,
OS5S) palaeontology, embryology geology
and all Of the allied sciences have come
to aid in the demonstration of the truth
of evolution. II is to Darwin that the
entire credit for starting science on the
right track is due.
The Greatest Novelist.
William Makepeace Thackeray Gsu-1S63)
by right of realism, psychological analysis.
the depicting of character forciHy and
satirically. the leader Of our novelists. The
romantic tales of Scott and Bulwer, be-
long TO another age. II is Thackeray who
is nearest to the spirit of the nineteenth
century in the search for the real and the
presentation of society as it Is. What
though this modern Swift cuts US TO the
quick with his irony! He is all the great
err teacher thereby. Becky Sharp will live
as a creature to be abhorred when Rob
Roy is forgotten, and Eugene Aram has
long passed away. Coming gene atoms wi |
read Thackeray to understand our tire
and they will not misunderstood il. The
followers of Thackeray are legon-but
they follow at a distance.
Herbert Spencer OS2O may be called the
evoutonal philosopher. Before the an
nouncement of Darwin's discoveries he
had been working along similar lines in
the department of thought. In 1860 he
published First PrincipleS the corner
stone of the huge philosophic structure to
which he has been adding constantly year
by year ever since. In this age of psy-
Geological research a great co-ordinaung
mind like that of Spencer was needed to
show the significance of the discoveries of
science in the realm of thought. He has
acted as check and corrective upon the
wild theorizers of biological and chemical
science, and by his laying down of logical
principles clarified the atmosphere so that
proper and justifable conclusions might
| be reached. Ethics, psychology, socioIo-
gy, all fall within his purview. He has
used a single golden thread to guide him
through all his Investigations; the develop
ment from natural causes. His is the
nineteenth century philosophy, a system
which astounds the reader by it's compre-
hensiVeness and thoroughness.