Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21

anthropologists tell the story-of his
beginning probably as an arboreal be-
ing, his descent to the ground, his
gradual adaptation, to changing sur
roundings, the growth Of his intelli-
gence, etc-but space forbids.
And the Lord God said 1t is not
good that the man should be alone; I
will make an helpmeet for him.
And the Lord God caused n deep
sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept;
and He took one of his ribs and closed
up the flesh instead thereof;
And the rib, which the Lord God
had taken from man, made He a wo-
man.
The generally accepted theory Of
evolution is that life first appeared on
the globe as a protoplasmic body-the
Monera and soon developed into a
form something like the amoeba Of
today. In this germ or cell there was
but one sex, or more probably the two
We may say truthfully that nature
made the male cell and then produced
the two sexes by dividing the male.
Or that out of the male cell nature
made the female. This accords well
with the Biblical account of the crea-
ton, and is further supported by DR..
Henderson's theory.
The process Of dividing the sexes, as
begun in the cell life-and be it re-
membered that man as he Is today is
but a multiplication Of these self
same protoplasmic cells-continued in
all the higher forms of life. For while
succeeding animal forms were COM
posed Of both male and female cells
the composite animal itself was her.
maphrodite, as is still the case with
some fishes, amphibians and molluscs.
Prof. Gegenbaur shows that the pro-
genitors Of the whole vertebrate king
dom were thus androgynous, and
Waldeyer in his researches offers con-
vincing proof that even the higher
vertebrates are, in their early condi-
ton, hermaphrodite." There can be
little doubt that for millions of years
the world was Inhabited exclusively
by androgynous forms. After attain
ing various stages Of advancement
they were separated, or again out Of
the male nature made the female.
Thus, according to the scientists,
man was evolved from a protoplasmic
cell, the first form of life to appear,
and his body is still made up of these
protoplasmic cells, some male and
some female, in both men and women
The word 'protoplasm" means first
creature or thing made"
The male and the female cells of
protoplasm are, therefore, the parents
Of all living forms Of life And Adam
called his wife's name Eve; because
she was the mother Of all living"
AS protoplasm is the life substance
Of the cell, and the one-celled animal
was the first form Of life to appear
the appropriateness of the name Eve
is evident.
Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast Of the field which the
Lord had made"
1t might seem fantastic to go on
and trace the parallel between the
story Of mans primitive days as told
by modern scientists and the Biblical
account Of the fall and mans expul
sion from the Garden Of Eden.
But the parallel is closer than may
be imagined. In the Miocene days
anywhere from 100000 to 9S0,OOO years
ago-man was probably a vegetarian,
living at peace with all animals, in a
world that was a vertable garden in
it's prolificness. He was contempora-
neous with the giant-legged serpents
or lizards that had preceded him on
earth by millions Of years. No one
can tell today that these serpents may
not have developed a high degree of
sagacity or cunning, perhaps even
greater than primitive man possess
ed.
Man and woman were naked and
unashamed. They knew neither good
nor evil. They understood as yet
nothing Of death-any more than the
animals today understand it.
Mans first step toward acquiring
knowledge was the acquisition Of cum
ming. Woman was the first to acquire
it. Cunning is the natural outgrowth
Of curiosity. 1t is the defense that the
weaker opposes to the stronger Sci
ence would scarcely say that she ac-
quired her cunning through observa
toion Of the reptiles, but the hypothe-
sis is legitimate, as none other has
been advanced.
The parallel seems closer the more
deeply we get into it. 1t requires very
little stretch Of the imagination to
take every new discovery Of science
and find in it confirmation Of the
poetic story contained in the first four
chapters Of Genesis, instead Of a con-
tradiction as used to be supposed
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