| Show HE f I 1 RUE continuation of extracts from dr J C ridpath in the arena distinguishing between the true ani and filse false evolution no ho true evolutionist has to hive have solved the tha question of the ultimate origin of 0 life in reply I 1 would say pay that two fundamental errors have been bee n mixed in with the doctrine of evolution and by their commin gling with the truth have greatly prejudiced the now new doctrine and have delayed its acceptance by the intel intelligence licence of cautious men these errors are 1 that the do doctrine ettine of evolution accounts for or has ever presumed to account for the ultimate ori origin ain of life the notion that the new hypothesis has assumed to del deal with this moat mysterious question and that it would fain explain by physical laws the beginning nid and source of life and the very act of that beginning has rome how gone abroad ou on the tides thinkers in every part of the civilized world have started up in alarm at the audacity of a doctrine which ilc remove all mystery flova world and make that great fact called life amenable to the common laws davs h ele C e evolution 0 ii io io far as I 1 anoil none of tile the great philosophers who have accepted acca apted the doctrine have bare assumed to ti solve or even discuss the question of the ultimate ori origin in of life on oil the contrary nearly all of them have entered a distinct disclaimer of any purpose to explain either tho the beginning or the end ed of that group of phenomena which we ire call by the name of life with the true evolutionist the whole question is this given the factor fact of life to know its process processed it cannot allt be too strongly emphasized that te evolution hypothesis deals with the modus operandi and not with the vis breand or of i nature proposes account for all the phenomenal aspects of then the world grid to show the antecedents and consequents of every given fact to note with adini admiration rati on the beautiful laws of differentiation and growth by which the world and its innabi tants have come up from primordial conditions to their present stage of development and even to sketch I 1 i in outline the tendencies of nature and the indications of future results but the true evolution does not assume and has never assumed to go beona the facts laws and processes of organic being to consider those transcendental questions which relate to the origin and the end of life the endless allega allegations tieng which ignorance gnor ance and owlish half wisdom have made with respect to tile the scope of and purpose of the doctrine doc trina of evolution are wholly gratuitous the true evolutionist hears such charges with a smile ile iio bersi bat every advanced step which science has hitherto made from froin the until now has been opposed and misrepresented in like manner by jealous and fool sh ish people whose weakness it is never learn knowledge aau belief are themselves in a process of constant evolution and that ali untruth as it is expounded in one age can never be enforced by authority on another age age that hind of evalu evolution tion which would transcend its legitimate field leaving the questions of fact of growth of law and ami of process to grope half blinded blooded bli oded in tho the mists which over liing ieng the in and the ultimate end of organic being 0 is a false evolution and not a true 2 the second general error which has found footing fooling in public opinion is that the doctrine of evolution teaches that the various forms forma of existing life on the hobe globe hive been derev derived ed from other f forms ornis of life differ different eat in kind as well as in degree of development it will ever remain ane lie of the mistakes of this age that the evolutionists have been made to teach what they do not teach and have not ta taught tight namely that the higher I 1 orders of animals and plants in the i world ba hare ve been derived from lower orders of a different kind to be sure the higher forms of life have been deduced from antecedent lower forme and su so on back aal and back to that primordial condition in which the vari various ous gernis germs of life were wera not yet by scientific tests the one from the other but let the difference be clearly perceived between the true evolution by which each present high form of life has been deduced from its primordial V gorm germ main tuning forever from the far beginning ginning 9 until now its own identical life and integrity and that crude cruda pseudo development which would make the present perfected organisms of the world to have leen been miscellaneously derived from a chaos of antecedent organisms different from themselves in essential kind and potentiality the true evolution does not teach and has never taught that man is the offspring of a monkey or that any higher a form of life is developed from a lower form different dil lerent from it itself in kinel such a crossing of the lines of life as is implied in this spurious process of development would introduce so go utter a confusion into the whole realm of nature as would make the return of original chaos a welcome event to every seeker atler after truth that sort port of process which would introduce this perpetual crossing and Tee re crossing and divergence of ta tire aj liei ses oalif cs life nd the kin d vf development which does not develop a species of evolution which does not evolve that which is now called man ilan was always wait man however lo wever closely he may have been hound bound in organic relationship with the tha higher 0 primates however able his body and mind may at onetime one time have been fi aiom orn the barely sentient een tient creatures of his companionship in the primitive state he nevertheless had in him ever potentially ally all the powers and attributes which he now displays or will ever display in all the tides of time true the ancestors of the man animal have been characterized by ignorance and weakness doubtless his animal frame was once less lees noble and beautiful than at present doubtless he was once covered with hair and lived in dens and caves of the earth doubtless he existed in still lower forms form but mark this well he be was always man lie ile had bad in win him in his hia most primitive form and aspect all the potency of his half balf perfected nature and what is true of roan man is true ot of every other form and fashion of life within the cori confine fines of nature every species of living organism has as i believe come up by a liked like process of evolution from its own primordial germ each has obeyed its own law of growth each is at present the ree result till of the wonderful antecedent forces which were impressed upon it in the hour and act of its beginning I 1 to jo my mind it appears clear that man to far as the development of his bodily and structural life is concerned is the result of a long process of evolutionary development reaching back almost infinitely into the past thousands of years have been required in the process perhaps hund hundreds redi of thousands other thousands thousand way may be required before nature and the supreme power over nature shall be satisfied with the product nor can an I 1 well understand bow there is is anything dea degrading rading in such a concept ot of the history of our race to me there appears in this view of the origin and method of our organic life something peculiarly grand and ennobling this concept of the human lace is more inore hopeful trian than any other it 0 gives ives promise of a higher and nobler noble r lire life to come it supplies all the elements of a generous optimism which looks ever with sympathy and delight upon the opening vistie vistas of the he future it hints of a time when every peasant shall see his big eyed boy a cuvier and every mother shall clasp an infant shakespeare to lier her breast all that supersensitive folk who affect a sentimental horror at the lowly origin which the true evolution assi assign grib to the human family should baue to remember that plato was once hardly from an infant crocodile that julius cucar once had less leas intelligence than a puppy that hat napoleon in his babyhood went on all fours like a frog and that lincoln for the fi first year year of his hia life 1 knew dew less than it a calf remembering this and accepting it such frightened folk wilt will shudder no longer at the tha apparition of any scientific truth respecting the ethnic origin of mankind tto nr BE i |
