The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

order, and omnipotence of God. 1t
seems anything but reasonable to
make this struggle for life the princi-
pie of creation, and to preordain the
"annihilation of the weaker beings as
the occasion and source of its various
Species" 1t certainly would be quite
an anomaly to give creature being
and ample power to preserve that be-
ing, and at the same time set other
forces to work to destroy it; undoubt-
edly nothing would be more contrary
to the attributes of the Almighty.
The next question which naturally
presents itself is this: How did the
monkey that became the first man
begin to reason, think, talk, laugh,
walk, sing, etc., etc. In answer to
the first, Vogt says this happened
through the increase of the brain, and
when we ask an explanation of the
abnormal increase of the brain he re-
spends Through its activity in
thinking. This conflicts with the eX-
perience of ages and with science,
when the reasoning is altogether in
active, that is in the average run Of
mankind from one to seven years, is
previsely the time when the brain de-
velops and grows most rapidly. Bis
choff, modern scientist, has summed
up the result of his observations in
the following words The gulf which
separates the convolutions of man S
brain from the convolutions in the
brain of an orang or chimpanzee can
not be bridged over by pointing to
the gulf which separates the outang
or chimpanzee from the lemur the
latter is filled up by the different in
termediate kinds of apes; the forms
to fill up the former must still be
found. Furthermore, it does not fol-
low because man has large brain
he will also have a great intellect !;
nor is the reverse invariable. Cur
ran, the greatest orator and thinker
of his time, had remarkably small
brain. In the depths of the African
wilderness savages have been discov-
cred that scarcely exercise the higher
faculties of the soul, nevertheless pos
sessing craniums no way inferior to
the cultured nations of Europe.
Hence, since not only one exception,
but many can be furnished against
the brain theory, the principle must
inevitably fall to the ground.
According to Darwin's brother
scientists he has made fatal blunder
regarding the time the various forms
took to arrive at pefection. In his
usual indefinite fashion he states that
countless ages were spent in the trans
formations. The observations and
calculations of nearly all scientific
men prove the absurdity of the state
ment, for they agree that the world,
whether created or uncreated, could
not have existed for longer period
than fifty million years.
Assuming for the moment, but by
no means admitting that the world is
eternal, to suit the Darwinian theory,
there remains yet another deeper gulf
to be crossed. 1t is asserted that the
struggle for existence still continues.
Why then did the transformation dis
continue, since nature always acts in
the same way? Why have not ami
mails changed into men in historic
times as we'll as in prehistoric? No
naturalist has thus far discovered a
monkey on the point of abandoning
his old habits and assuming those of
a man, nor has the remains of such
an animal ever been excavated. Ger
tain species may have increased or de-
creased in size, may have grown more
symmetrical in type and more uni
form in their organs, but they still
belong to their respective species and
races. Nature itself rises up in re-
volt against this theory, for genera
ton stops when species is crossed.
That which constitutes the greatest
line of demarcation between man and
beast is the faculties of the soul.
Man is man plainly because he thinks,
reflects, and is cognizant of his own
actions these qualities are manifest
1y absent in the brute. This is suf-
fciently attested from the fact that
all animals of the same species in
variably pursue the same line of ac-
ton. The opposite is witnessed in
the human being; ne accommodates
himself to the time and the circum-
stance on one occasion he does one
thing, on another he does something
else. Animals, therefore, unswerving-
ly follow course manifested to them
by instinct, but man, free and unfet-
tered, prosecutes this or that mode of
action according to the dictates of
reason; therefore, in the words of a
German philosopher, "It is false to
assert that the irrational is capable of
producing the rational spirit of man ;
the higher will not develop itself from
the lower, because no being can be-
queth more than it possesses itself. "
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