Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — The Gospel of Evolution. [ARTICLE]

The Gospel of Evolution.

1. There never was a beginning. The eternal without us that maketh for righteousness took no notice whatever of anything. 2. And Cosmos was homogeweous and undifferentiated, and somehow or other evolution began, and molecules appeared. * - 3. And molecule developed protoplasm, and rythmic thrills arose, and then there was light. • i f < - 4. And a spirit of energy was developed and formed a plastic cell, whence arose the primordial germ. 5. And the<primordial germ became protegene, and protogene somehow shaped eocene—then was the dawn of life, 6. And the herb yielded seed, and the fruit tree yielded fruit after its own kind, whose seed is in iiself, develo;>ed according to its own fancy. And the eternal without us that maketh for righteousness neither knew nor cared anything about it. ' 7, The cattle after his kind, the beasts of the earth after his kind, and every creeping thing became involved by heterogeneous segregation and concomitant dissipation of motive. 8. So that by survival of the fittest there evolved the simiads from the jelly-fish, and the simiads differentiated themselves into the anthropomorphic primordial types. 9. And in due time one lost His tail and became a man, a: d behold, he was the most cunning of all the animals, audio! the fast men killed the slow men, and it was ordained to be so in every age. 10. And in process of time, by natural selection and survival of the fittest Matthew Arnold, Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin appeared, and behold, it was very good. The >e’flsh Way of looking at 7 kings.' “Yes." said Mrs. Egomoi,! “I used to think a great deal of Mrs. Goode, she was always so kind to me, but then, I’ve found out that she treats everybody just the same."