The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-11

Darwin and his works in the presence
of Thos Huxley, a lifelong friend of
Darwin, and winding up his speech and
directing his remarks to Huxley, ask.
ed: III he We're really descended
from monkey. and if so was It on
his fathers or his mothers side?"
Huxley slowly rose in his place in
the audience and forcibly said: q as
sert and repeat that a man has no
reason to be ashamed of having an
ape for his grandfather. If there were
an ancestor whom should feel shame
in recalling, it would be a man, man
OF restless and versatile intellect who,
not content with success in his own
sphere of activity. plunges into scien-
titic questions with which he has no
real acquaintance, only to obscure
them by an aimless rhetoric, and dis
tract the attention of his hearers from
the real point at issue by eloquent di-
gression and skillful appeal to re-
ligious prejudices" Archbishop viii
berforee had no more to say regard.
ing Darwin's theories when Huxley
was present.
Herbert Spencer in a somewhat sim.
liar manner called Gladstone to task
by telling him that Newton and his
law of grayitation (Which Gladstone
accepted) and the physical science of
astronomy was open to the same
charges that he was making against
The Origin of Species. Gladstone
retreated under maze of words which
had nothing to do with the subject.
Now as to the theory that Darwin
has immutably fixed on the world
What is it? Stripped of all its scien-
tific verbiage it means only this, and
the explanation is so simple that 1t
seems to me that even Farmer" could
understand it. The Darwinian theory
is that if the strongest and best class
OF the species are selected and mated
better specimens will result and that
a long course of procedure of this sort
will finally evolve a much better race
OF course, running this back through
ages and ages, this same selection, and
the survival of the fittest and strong
est parents, gradually high type Of
race has been evolved. Every farmer
knows the advantage Of selection and
breeding of the best individual of his
focks. He strives all the time to in
crease the value of his herds in this
manner.
Darwin found that the lowest uni
cellular organism was simply a mass
of undifferentiated protoplasm, and he
found too, that this same cell was
identical with the cell of highest forms
of animal life, and how easy then came
the postulate: Origin of Species"
If in the brief lifetime of one man,
great change in herd of cattle can
be made by selecting each season the
best specimens for breeding purposes
what wonderful result might be ac-
complished in ages of the same sort of
a process, governed in the latter in
stance by the supplemental theory Of
Natural Selection" and THE Survival
of the Fittest."
If God made in brief days of 24|
hours each the earth and all it con-
tains with man and woman, just 4O04
years before Christ, May 10th, why
didn't he make perfect pair? Why
didn't he made pair that could work
in the metals, harness electricity. con
line and use steam, put great net work
of railroads across Palestine, and why
were they not perfect in every partic-
ular and not as far advanced both
and physically as they are
today, and going step further, as far
as humanity can ever reach. Why
didn't he make a composite Edison,
Eesla. Watts and Jas. j. HiH?.
| repeat this query: If God made |
man and woman, why didn't he put
them at the highest zenith intellectual
y, and why pray tell me, Marcus, were
the first parents of our world accord
ing to Moses, just a little above the
animal creation?
These questions can only be answer
I'd by evolution, Man has gradually
evolved fro ma lower to a higher, and
or not he came from an
or a ehimpanzee, all of
is have seen specimens of the Genus
Homo that good respectable monkey Il
would have been ashamed to associate
With
The theories of Darwin are inculcat-
ID by all the great universities and are
aught in all centers of learning, and
ldopted by most of the orthodox re-
igions. OF course they (the religion
sts) say God gradually evolved. Did mt