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of the ‘‘nebular theory” , scientists
do not adm it this; hut th at theory
E a s y L e sso n s in P h ilo s o p h y .
is losing ground, and the origin
of life” is likely to share the fate of
BY CHARLES CLARK MILLARD.
“ the creation of m atter.
Evolution rationally accounts
I I.
for all vegetable and anim al life
All th at we know, or can know, th a t has ever existed on the E arth
except the
first
of the universe is included in two excep,
lIIC U,
DV living cell
---- and this
classes;
ely,
one microscopic
Classes, nam
n a u ic
ij, things, and the unv
r cell is an th at re
. .
,,r tku
„rout, m vsterv of lit»'
properties of . thing».
For instance, main» of
the great
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,
a , z.ioua- Rut if life is but one of the inner :
rocks belong to the
rs
propertieg of in atter, (afi many
while weight, density, h a r m s . , ^ . entibt8 alreft<ly ^ ¡ e v e ) winch is
etc., belong in the second class devel
l und(J|. certain conditions;
So man is in the first cl»»»; and
(here ¡s n() wby? n„ r whence?
emotions, desires, reason and ju< g-
w|,jt her ? to this socalled
m ent are in the second. It is se ' Uproblem of life/> Alld ¡f we ad­
evident that density and hardness m it the claim of the religious evo­
depend on the existence of some lutionist, th at God created the first
thing which is dense and hard; so, cell, it is a t least just as probable ,
joy, hope, reason and judgm ent th a t he m ade life a property of
•depend upon some being having m atter, as it is th a t he gave it an
these properties. A th in g is more independent creation.
th an any or all of its properties,
Every living germ, w hether veg­
and does not depend upon them for etable or anim al, possesses the
its existence.
property of changing other sub-
Things are divided into three 1 stances into its own substance; and
classes called the m ineral, vegetable each one has w hat we call the
and anim al kingdoms, hut the lines
exerci9e9 it ¡„
of separation cannot be dehm ely 11
s(,lw,tion <)f ¡,„ food. Each
draw n. AU th in g s are p assin g I
lw,w certaii> substances for
through these three ktugdom s in
(akt,s lh e ,n in tl) its own s.ruet-
a ceasless and endless cin - o
cbanges them into its own
transformation; rock» <inim de an
u(.e and thereby grows; and
become soil; the »oil becomes gr..»», I ,
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fruits, grains or vegetable»; am
<(f |aw , th a t a „
these in tu rn
become anim al >
lQ aut> t<> ,,e-
tissues; then the anim al . les, de-
„ ley are n(lt. The law
composes and returns to the miner- of germ growth produces sim ilarity
kingdom, and this process is re-
while the general law produces
peated
ateo ad
ao infinitum
im inuum .
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B u t flesh is not grass, „eith er is
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Rocks . .
grass soil; but each new eomh.ua - | gw(j^
ion is new creation, having proper-
“ th : th h g we see W
in itscll » « > « “
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and know; am i „• re
the world which " " I ’’'" ’’’
through our sense organs, a id, i
we use a lit.ie reason and pidgm en
with our sense, things ARE w hat
they seem -L ongfellow to
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