davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Cites Need of Primal Cause.

'sWhen Darwin entered upon his
scientific career he was quite ortho-
dox and quoted the Bible as an un-
answerable authority on some point of
morality Even when he wrote The
Origin of Species the thought of a
first cause, having an intelligent mind
in some degree analogous to man
was strong in his mind. 1t was after
that time that very gradually, with
many fluctuations his belief in God
became weaker. He traces this de-
cline for us and concludes by telling
us that he cannot pretend to throw
the least light on such abstruse prob
lems-the religious problems above re-
ferred to. Then comes the fiat state
ment that he must be content to re-
main an agnostic'; and to make clear
what he meant by the word agnostic,
he says that ''the mystery of the be-
ginning of all things in insoluble by
us-not by him alone, but by every
body. Here we have the effect of evo-
luton upon its most distinguished ex-
ponent; 1t led him from an orthodox
Christian, believing every word of the
Bible and in a personal God, down and
down and down to helpless and hope
less agnosticism.
tBut there's one sentence upon
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Continued from First Pagel
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which l reserve comment-it throws
light upon his downward pathway
Then arises the doubt, can the mind
of man which has, as l fully believe,
been developed from a mind as low as
that possessed by the lowest animals.
be trusted when it draws such grand
Evening star., 1925-07-28

BY the Associated Press.
His teachings, and His teach
ings alone, can solve the problems
that vex the heart and perplex the
world"
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Survival of Fittest.


"'With savages, the weak in body
or mind are soon eliminated; and those
that survive commonly exhibit Wig
orous state of health. We civilized
men, on the other hand, do our utmost
to check the process of elimination;
we build asyIums for the imbecile, the
manned and the sick; we institute
poor laws, and our medical men exert
their utmost skill to save the life OF
every one to the last moment. There
is reason to believe that vaccination
has preserved thousands who from a
weak constitution would formerly
have succumbed toe smallpox. Thus
the weak members of civilized society
propagate their kind.
1.-The aid which we feel impelled TO
give to the helpless is mainly an incl
dental result of the instinct of sym
pathy which was originally acquired
as part of the social instincts, but
subsequently rendered, in the manner
previously indicated, more tender and
more widely diffused. Nor could we
check our sympathy, even at the urg-
ing of hard reason, without detertorsl-
ton in the noblest part of our nature.
We must therefore bear the
undoubtedly bad effects of the weak
surviving and propagating their
kind
Doctrine Inhuman. 4
ct he c,Iota fioY1 IIrgfE
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Pedigree Not Noble.

but no one can at present say by
what line of descent the three higher
and related classes, namely, NAM
mails, birds and reptiles, We're derived
from the two lower vertebrate classes,
namely, amphibians and fishes. In
the class OF mammals the steps-are
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Darwin suggested two laws, sexual
selection and natural selection. Sex
ual selection has been laughed out of
the classroom and natural selection
is being abandoned, and no explana-
ton is satisfactory even to scientists.
Some of the more rash advocates of
evolution are wont to say that evo-
luton is as firmly established as the
law of gravitation or the Copernician
theory. The absurdity of such a
claim is apparent when we remember
that any one can prove the law of
gravitation by throwing a weight into
the air, and that anyone can prove
the roundness of the earth by going
around it, while no one can prove
evolution to be true in any way what
ever.
Chemistry is an insurmountable
obstacle in the path of evolution. It
is one of the greatest of the sciences;
it separates the atoms-isolates them
and walks about them, so to speak.
If there were in nature progressive
force, an eternal urge, chemistry
would find it. But it is not there.
All of the 80 original elements are
separate and distinct they combine
in fixed and permanent proportions.
Water is--H2Qs as it has been from
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ut need hardly be added that this
law did not have its origin in bigotry.
1t is not trying to force any form
of religion on anybody. The ajority
is not trying to establish a religion
or to teach tit is trying to protect
itself from the effort of an insolent
minority to force irreligion upon the
children under the guise of teaching
science. What right has a little, ir
responsible oligarchy of self-styled
1ntellectuals' to demand control of
the schools of the United States, in
which 25 millions of children are
being educated at an annual expense
of nearly two billions of dollars?
Christians must, in every State
of the Union, build their own colleges
in which to teach Christianity; it is
only simple justice that atheists, ag-
nostics and unbelievers should build
their own colleges if they want to
teach their own religious views or
attack the religious views of others.
THE statute is brief and free from
ambiguity. 1t prohibits the teaching.
in the public srhools=of- any theory
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Doctrine Inhunan

Doctrine Inhuman. 4
Let us analyze the quotation JustS
given. Darwin speaks with approval
of the savage custom of eliminatingy
the weak so that only the strong wilII
Continued on Firth Paga9
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Nietzsche's Superman.

"Mr. Darrow says: "The super
man, a creation of Nietzsche, has
permeated every college and univer-
sity in the civilized world
There is not any university in the
world where the professor is not fa-
miliar with Nietzsche-not one.
Some believe 1t. and some do not
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Menace to Worlds Morals.


Psychologists who build upon the
evolutionary hypothesis teach that
man is nothing but a bundle of char
acteristics inherited from brute an
cestors. That is the philosophy
which Mr.. Darrow applied in this cele-
brated criminal case. Some remote
ancestor'-he does not know how re-
mote-'sent down the seed that cor
rupted him. You cannot punish the
Cording to the evolutionfsts, he was
brute and may have lived a mil
lion years ago. And he says that all
the biologists agree with him-no
wonder so small per cent of the
biologists, according to Leuba, believe
in a personal God.
This is the Quintessence Of evolu-
ton, distilled for us by one who fol
lows that doctrine to it's logical con-
clusion. Analyze this dogma of dark
ness and death. Evolutionists say
that back in the twilight of life a
beast, name and nature unknown,
planted a murderous seed and that the
impulse that originated in that seed
throbs forever in the blood of the
brutes descendants, inspiring killings
innumerable, for which murderers are
not responsible because coerced by a
fate fixed by the laws of heredity! 1t
heart. The doctrine is as deadly as
leprosy; it may aid a lawyer in a
criminal case, but it would, If gener-
ally adopted, destroy all sense Of re-
sponsibility and menace the morals of
the world. A brute, they say, can
predestine a man to crime, and yet
they deny that God incarnate in the
flesh can release a human being from
this bondage or save him from an
cestral sins. No more repulsive doc
trine was ever proclaimed by man. If
all the biologists of the world teach
this doctrine, as Mr.. Darrow says they
do, then may Heaven defend the
youth of our land from their impious
bablingS.
Leads to Idle Speculation.
"Our third indictment against evo-
luton is that it dfverts attention from
pressing problems of great importance
to trif1ing speculation. While one
evolutionist is trying to imagine what
happened in the dim past. another Is
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Scientists Deny God.

But I have some more evidence of
the effect of evolution upon the life
of those who accept it and try to
harmonic their thought with it.
James H. Leuba, professor of
psychology at Bryn Mawr College,
Pennsylvania, published a few years
ago a book entitled Belief in God and
Immortality In this book he relates
how he secured the opinions of scien-
fists as the existence Of a. personal
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"It may be "a surprise to your
honor and to you gentlemen of the
jury, as it was to me, to learn that
Darwin spent three years at Cam
bridge studying for the ministry"
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THE soul is immortal and re-
ligion deals with the soul; the logi-
cal effect of the evolutionary hypo-
thesis is TO undermine religion and
thus affect the soul"
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psychologists who build upon
the evolutionary hypothesis teach
that man is nothing but "a bundle
of characteristics inherited from
-
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Demands More Than Guess.

IF the results of evolution were
unimportant, one might require less
proof in support of the hypothesis,
but before accepting a new philosophy
of life, built upon a materialistic
foundation, we have reason to demand
something more than guesses; we
may well suppose is not a sufficient
substitute for thus saith the Lord
If you, your honor, and you, gen.
tlemen of the jury, would have an un-
derstanding of the sentiment that lies
back of the statute against the teach
ing of evolution, please consider the
facts that 1 shall now present to
you. First, as to the animals to
which evolutionists would have us
trace our ancestry. The following
is Darwin's family tree, as you will
find it set forth on pages 1S0-1S1 of
his Descent of Man:
1.-The most ancient progenitors in
the kingdom of vertebrate, at which
we are able to obtain an obscure
glance, apparently consisted of a
group of marine animals, resembling
the larvae of existing ascidians. These
animals probably gave rise to a group
of fishes, as lowly organized as the
lancelot, and from these the ganoids,
and other fishes like the Lepidosiren,
must have been developed. From such
fish a very small advance would carry
us on to the amphibians. We have
seen that birds and reptiles were once
intimately called together, and the
monotremata now connects mammals
with reptiles in a slight degree.
Pedigree Not Noble.
but no one can at present say by
what line of descent the three higher
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21
Figures Of Speech
"CIear Out for Guam"

"The Russian ship OF state seems
to cleared out for Guam'-that is,
to be bound for no definite place."
commentator on current affairs.
A ship is said to "clear out for
Guam" when it sails for no port in
particular. Guam is a small island
in the Pacific ocean which has be-
longed to the United States since the
Spanish-Ameriean war. In the
height Of the gold fever in Aus
tralia, ships were chartered to
carry passengers thither from
England, without having return car
goes obtained for them. They were
therefore obliged to leave Melbourne
in ballast, and to sail in search OF
homeward freights. The custom
house regulations required, however,
that on clearing some port should
be named and it became the habit
Of captains TO mime Guam.
Hence, to "clear out for Guam
came TO mean to clear out for just
anywhere, to be bound for what
ever coast the ship might choose to
venture upon.
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Science Only Road to Peace, Savant Says

litical jealousy and the road of
religious bigotry--and found them
both equally misleading. Perhaps
it will now try the third, the road
of scientific truth, the only road on
which the passenger is not deceived
like a skittish horse with binders.
Science does not, ostrich-like, bury
its head amidst perils and diff
culties. 1t tries to see everything
exactly as everything is.
People in general instinetiyely
recognize this character Of science,
and that is why Turgot, long ago,
paid his remarkable tribute Of adj
miration and sympathetic apprecia-'
ton to Captain Cook. 1t is also
the reason for the splendid demon
stration of popular confidence in
the honesty and the high ideals Of
science that We have just been wit
Messing in connection with the at
tempted auto-da-fe in Tennessee.
Revived methods Of the Inquisi-
ton are revealed in the light that
Eliminates science, as only a rusty
heap Of thumbscrews and iron boots,
and a dust-covered display of tor
ture wheels and "iron maidens"-a
dyspeptic's dream of a nightmare
age.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21

The skin diseases are puzzling
Take hives, for instance. Why do
those swollen spots come after eat
ing certain foods? I know a girl who
would have giant hives If she took a
single drop of cream.
Ny Ohio friend is sure his trouble
is systematic" either due to lack of
elimination of some substance in the
blood or to some unperformed func-
ton of the skin" I believe he is
right, but how to get at the bottom
of il is the question.
Whenever the nose, the bend Of
the elbow, the prominent part of the
cheek or some other area is the seat
of repeated pimples, swellings. red
ness, scaliness or itching, there must
be two conditions present. There is
a local weakness which, as my corr
respondent says, may be due to an
unperformed function of the skin,
and then there must be some irritant
or exciting substance which co mes
through the circulation.
OF course, there is a further pos
sibility that the irritation comes
from without, possibly from some
unconscious habit.
But you can see how difficult it
is to explain nationally these mys-
terious skin disturbances. The best
thing to do, however, is to search
the body in an attempt TO discover
any local infection which may exist.
and failing in this, to eliminate one
after another the articles of food
which may be responsible for the
trouble.
My friend will say be has done all
this, but it won't hurt to go over
the ground once more.
Copyright 1926, by Newspaper
70. Feature Service, Ine)
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SAN ANTONIO,
AUGUST Fl, 1925
Pleasure Stealers
By DR.. FRANK CRANE

strain or abolish these unpleasant
thoughts. Most Of us are of Oscar
Wilde's opinion that the easiest
way to deal with temptation is to
yield to it.
The ability to get rid of dis
turbing thoughts is one that is rare
ly attained, but is very necessary to
our happiness.
Most of US would be happy most
of the. time IL it were not for dis
turbing desires.
1t is a good plan to know how to
deal with these unruly members, and
if we find any desired thing impos.
sible to obtain we should put the
longing for it manfully away; then
the rest of our thought would flow
along peacefully.
The art of controlling ourselves
and governing what things we think
about is not only a matter of re-
ligion and necessary If we are to
resist sin; it is a matter of per-
sonal comfort, and until we have
mastered it we cannot be sure of
commencement.
Copyright. 1925. by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21

Every year thousands of books
are written, printed and distributed.
Most of them are but for the
moment--to be read and then cast
aside for ever. Others are read
and rc-read and put on the shelves,
only to be taken down and con-
suited again year after year.
All books have a use and
value whether they be fiction,
drama. history, autobiography, poe
try, science-each and every one OF
them carries a message or solves
n problem, or transcribes life for
your edification and pleasure, or
makes you laugh or weep, or sim.
ply entertains and passes the time.
According to what the book con-
tains and the reasons for which
you peruse its pages, depends the
manner in which you should APP
proach it.
One need not necessarily read a
book from cover to cover.
As Bacon has said, Some books
are to be tasted, others to be swal-
lowed, and only a few to be chewcd
and digested.'
But remember that books, when
properly chosen, can readily extend
your life and satisfy the strivings
and cravings that you feel depriv-
ed of!
For instance, in a great novel
you can learn more about human
nature in an evenings reading than
you could possibly acquire from
years Of experience. b..
Drama depicts the struggles ana
passions Of men and emphasizes the
purple patches Of their lives.
History gives you poise and per-
speetive.
Biographies take you into the
authors confidence and hand in
hand you travel with him along
life's thorny course.
Poetry is like sweet music TO
= the ear-it inspires soothes and
uplifts according 20 its mood.
And don't forget your Bible
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21

There are other thieves than those
that steal our property.
And there are not only things to
steal, but man can be robbed of
his happiness, contentment, satisfac-
ton and the like.
The other day little boy wanted
to 60 to a summer camp. He was
told that he could 60. Afterwards
he said he would have to haye
flashlight, which would cost fifty
cents. in order to go to camp. He
was told that he could not have
the flashlight. Immediately he went
through the processsof asking for it
at suspicious time6 such as just
after he was kissed, or at meals,
and SO on. He became very miser-
able over this refusal. The miser-
able little flsshlight had stolen all
of the fun out Of the camp vaea-
ton.
Very often an unwelcome thought
will steal the pleasure out of all
our other undertakings.
1t is like a cuckoo bird that casts
all the other birds out of the nest.
Very few of us are able to re-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21
OVER LIES HURDLES

By LOUIS E. BISCH
Copyright. 1925. Premier synd., Inc.

all in all the Bible is the greatest
book ever written!
Read the Bible as a piece Of lit
erature IL nothing else. The book
Of Job, as just one example, is one
of the finest dramatic classics ever
written.
Make a practice Of reading from
a book each day.
Choose the one that suits your
feeling-tone.
Select an exciting mystery story
il you are sluggish and downcast.
Read an essay II you would sharpen
your wits. Take up a classic If
you feel the need Of intellectual re-
freshment.
Books are written for your bene-
fit and enjoyment.
Each one introduces you to a
new world and broadens your I'M
derstanding Of human nature.
Books are valuable Use them!
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21
BATTLING SKIN DISEASES
By ROYAL s. COPELAND, M. |
United States Senator From New York.
Former Commissioner Of Health, New York City

I have a good letter from an Ohio
reader. He does not agree with me
about some suggestions I made in
an article on psoriasis. 1 must
say he speaks by the book, because
he has suffered from attacks of this
disagreeable disease for almost fifty
years.
Psoriasis shows itself by a local
lied patch of scaly skin on a red
base. 1t is sharply defined at the
edges. The patch is not unlike a
scald of the skin upon which
white scales have been spread.
The accepted view today is that
these patches are the result Of
some sort of food poisoning, the
failure of proper elimination of
some given element in the body
wastes, or to an infection from
some pus center. Just why the skin
poisoning should take this form no.
body knows.
We are long, long way from
knowing a lot of things. This need
need not be discouraging. The
Commissioner Of Patents recon-
mended to Congress fifty years ago
that the Bureau of Patents be
abolished, because, be said, Every
thing has been Invented, that the
mind of man can possibly think Of"
Thinks Of the things which have
been invented in the past fifty years
the electric light, the telephone,
automobile and acroplane, the trac-
tor, the radio. During the next fifty
years have no doubt greater won
ders will be revealed.
In the field Of medicine wonderful
discoveries will be made. Diseases
now incurable will be under control.
The span Of life will be materially
extended.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21

In the Memoirs" of NJ. Jusse-
rand, whose long term Of service as
French representative at Washing
ton was recently closed, there &C.
ours a passage which strikingly IL
Illustrates the beneficent influence Of
science upon the peace and amity
Of nations. During our Revolution
airy War, when France had Joined
hands with US and sent a fleet and
an army TO aid the colonies against
Great Britain, Captain Cook was
on one of his celebrated voyages Of
discovery, and, as he had no ocean
cables and no wireless telegraphy TO
transmit daily news Of his move.
ments, nobody knew just where he
was or when he would return. At
this juncture the French War Min
lister, Turgot, reminded his King,
Louis XVI, that:
Captain Cook is probably on
his way back to Europe. His ex-
petition having no other object
than the progress Of human knowl-
edge, and interesting, therefore, all
nations, it would be worthy Of the
kings magnanimity not to allow
that the result be jeopsrdized by
the chances Of war. Orders should
be given 10 all French naval Of
ficers 70 abstain from any hostile
act against him or his ship and
allow him freely 10 continue his
navigation and to treat him in every
respect as the custom is TO treat
the officers and ships Of neutral
and friendly countries"
The king assented to the sugges-
ton Of his enlightened minister,
and the French cruisers were no.
titled to that effect.
This is one Of those rare Incl
deRts of history that make readers
sit up and take notice" It is
so far out Of the common that it
surprises and refrcshes like a pleas
ant, unexpected breeze. While read
ing N. Jusserands account one
feels an accession Of universal hu-
man friendliness, and becomes, at
least momentarily, proud of his
kind.
One Of the objects Of Captain
Cooks yoyaging was TO make OBJ
seryation of a transit Of Venues,
then the only good method known
Of measuring the distance from the
earth 10 the sun. Even kings and
war ministers stood aside, and gave
unmolested passage 10 the represen-
tative Of science on such a mission
AS they probably would always
do IL the swift rush and fierce in.
tensity Of modern warfare left them
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time for a little cool reflection on
the universal interests Of mankind.
The only real road to settled
peace is that of science; politics
will never hit it, nor dogmatic re-
ligion either. Science is, in its
very nature, universal. 1t inter
ests all civilized nations alike. 1t
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Freaks Of Nature
Cataract Bird

For some unknown reason, the
cataract bird builds its nest in the
most dangerous spot it can find.
The nest is constructed on a rocky
ledge, directly over a mountain cata-
ract from which the bird gets its
name. One false step, and the lit
tie bird would fall over the ledge
and be dashed against the rocks
below. The nest is so constructed,
however, that the little ones would
have a hard job climbing out. 1t
is shaped like a bottle, long and
narrow. Several of them may be
seen hanging side by side.
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS

has no favorites, and no preferred
views. Its aim is absolutely single,
viz. the uncovering of the truth.
knowledge is power-not partial
but complete power, which cannot
make war upon itself
Mankind has tried the sother two
roads to peace-the road Of po-
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YE TOWNE GOSSIP .,E: 6: >:

AND WHY do you have. %
THIS STUFF for me,
WHEN YOU know very wen.
YOU DON'T like it yourself.
AND DO be careful.
WITH THIS or that.
AND WHERE have you been.
I'VE BEEN worried about you.
AND SHE Just smiles.
AND GOES her way.
AND DOESN'T care.
THAT SHE is nagged at.
AND THEY have friends.
50 May OF them.
THAT JSsT drop in.
AT ANY old time
AND BAsK in the light.
THAT ILLUMINEs their home.
AND THE strange thing is.
THAT SHE is an actress.
AND HE an actor.
IN MOTION pictures.
AND 1 ran across them.
THE oTHE. day.
AND SHE'D come north.
FROM HOLLYWOOD.
TO WORK in a picture.
AS SOMEBODY'S mother.
AND JIM had come.
BECAUSE HE'S afraid.
TO TRUST her to cross.
THE FOUR car lines.
I THANK you