The Irish standard., 1903-05-23

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tlcally fixed and in the main unchange-
able, especially if of an inelastic and
stubborn combination of matter like
bones or horns or other tough integu-
ment.
1T seems to me to be possible that
III some great commissions at and about
the place where the horse animal came
i'll being, his primitive kind was de-
stroyed entirely, and take it that the
same great creative impulse or law
did in more quiescent period sue
ceeding such cataclysm reproduce
another species of animal like to this
horse with such notifications of the
organs and limbs as is noted by the
geological investigators; supporting
this theory, have noticed that those
who name the horse as an instance OF
the truth OF their theory Of evolution,
find first the five-toed animal, then a
four-toed animal, then three-toed an
imal and finally the two-toed animal
of the present day which is practically
one-toed owing to the rudimentary con-
diton of the hind toe which is in the
tuft over and behind the fetlock, but
they do not find anywhere in any Of
these geological formations the inter-
mediate series of animals which they
assume to have existed and which they
intercalate between the rive-toed, the
fOur-toed. the three-toed. and the two
tocd l believe the truth to be, there
fore between the bald crude state
mcnt in Genesis and the ultima thule
of the extreme Darwinians, and be-
lieve that there have been successive
creations intended according to this
hard and fast law of creation to pop
ulatc the surface of the earth at the
time of their creation and having with
in them the possibilities and tendencies
to evolve toward Il maximum condition
of each of THE several species, and that
this general truth has been neceSsari-
IN ohscurrd because OF the multiplied
~ of original efforts under this law to
establish species and the numerous
failures from the beginning to bring
ALL these created species down to
this latter day of ours.
From these yllnmcrings of the truth,
MS sec it here and there, | believe
that thousands of species, even includ-
ing many subdivisions of the genus
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organs and adapahililics having been
fixed to graphic With some primcval
condition of the atmosphere or surface
of the earth and these organs and
adapta,iltics having become SO ull-
changcablc that they have been unable
to evolve further or to change them
quickly enough to meet these latter
conditions of our times. believe that
scientists while looking for support Of
their fnvoritc theory of continuous
evolution mistakenly place these lost
species in the chain as ancestors when
In fact they were the last Of their
kind or near it.
l can see in the plastic conditions
of man, in his soft and pliable bones,
his delicate skin and flesh, his minia-
tulr teeth. his suturcd adjustable
skull, the very things which have made
him adaptable to Il changing climate
and changing conditions and thereby
have made him and his species truly Il
survival of the iittcst. Had his species
been clothed in arnlor like some Of tho
species in oltlen time, had his Skin been
thick, had his brain been cncascd in
n close locked cavity without ADJUST
able sections in the skull plate so that
the scat of his nervous organization
could not expand to meet the growing
demands upon it. he would not have
evolved TO be indeed the lord Of crca-
ton.
The Hebrew idcalist in his crude,
rough way reached the same conclu-
sion. that man was created paramount,
and he also reached the conclusion that
this species is easily chnngeable and
cam readily fail into dccAtlencc as is
evidenced by his alleged history OF the
fall In the Garden Of Eden, | therefore
look upon THE biblical narrative in
Genesis as the nearst approximation
TO the truth of creation that has ever
been conceived by man llnAidcd ana
alone with such lights as he only
could have had 1900 to 1000 years be-
fore Christ We must remember That
the Doctrines of Darwin, Huxley, Tyn-
dahl I.ycll and others of their llk
have been formed at a time when they
have had not only the lights Of the
writer of Genesis, but the light OF all
the geological investigations Of all OF
the times since, but it is very doubt
full, to say the least, if their conclusion
OF continuous evolution without 4
skin or n break by other than that
of a partial cataclysm is more reason
able and more Just than the direct
statement of Genesis, for the suppose
tjOn which | have suggested as to the
extensive periods of time over which
this original creation may have tax
on place could be reasonably stated i'll
brief as was done in the Hebraic &C
count of creation, for, as has been said
by one of these great writer's, tlmc as