The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-14

.trusttul the South j. We are reminded
~ tins atresh by Roosevelt beng her
-seaker at the fine old University Of NtT-
,5o5a rHe cherished child 81 the greatest
American Statesman. Thomas Jefferson.
Teddy had ~belttled the great Jefferson
accusing him Of beng a weakllng and 4
corruptIoui~t, or words 10 that erect. and
vet he Of al others y selected 70 denver
lie address it the late commencement
As a genuine. unfalterlng Democrat. and
devoted. earnest Southron. and . believer
III tie supremacy u The Anglo-Saxons. ana
especially in the South. Inc entertainer
If Booker Washington. a greatly over
rated negro. III his own home, could never
possibly have had me among ms hearers
d. wor~hiprers. | would prefer to hear his
sable guest a. a man q aS much charac-
ter and ot more ~teadfastnesS ~ CONVICTION
than the supple politician who BY the
-alamity Of i great crime j. ut present
fastened upon the American people. But
Roosevelt, the chosen orator 1t the Very
tomb Of Jefferson, is an offence agalnss
taste and propriety and decency. Is the
south decadent so soon?
Some years ~ago-nearly a decade. per-
( haps-I wrote a column article IN a news
paper setting forth some 81 the gross
absurdities, nconslstencles and lmpossI
bilties OF the theory of Darwin and his
chief hackers. But a few months since !
wrote for the Raleigh News and Observer
"A short article on the Darwin plan Of
+ creating Man, and gave extracts from
Tvndal, Huxley and Heackel-the three
ablest e~xpounders OF the creative craze
which were quite damaging to their con
~tentions as to mans real orlgln-or tie
origin Of species. Their concessions We're
q b~olutely fatal to the theory Of DARWIN
and which they had accepted. Now | an
glad to see that 80 great a man Of science
the four named have LETT for another
world where speculation and theory Will
not avail them-as Lord KELVIN. OF Great
Britain. has spoken out bravely and
! clearly as TO how the human race began
lie stands at the head Of the British men
Of science Of this time, and his words
count for something. | have thought fof
years. and have 50 written more than
once, that there has really been a reaction
against fantastic science and the VAN
speculations of philosophers so-called. In
Germany the war upon the Bible has
reached It's ultimatum, and after piling uT
scores of volumes against God and HIS
Truth, there is a palpable subsistence II
the waves OF scepticism and derlslon. and
the edges of the tools Of the linguistic and
theological sappers and miners nave
become dull with use. The ably edited
Norfolk (Va.) Virginian-Pilot says: 1T is,
We believe, safe to say that the move OF
agnosticism has reached its crest and is
now subsiding. The pendulum that sWune
toward agnosticism under the first Impulse
Of the new learning is now swinging bacl
science cannot explain the things that are
upon any mere theory of finite forces
There remains always the mysterious, tie
insoluble that is yet the basic and the es
scntial.'
And yet a Northern disciple of Darwin
speaking at a North Carolina College com
menceInent, lauded Darwin IN a high way
and threw a slur upon these who fail tc
accept his poor stuff as science, and liz
was greatly applauded it appears. But
Lord Kelvin is not of that particular
Speculative kidney. He IS reported as re