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ADDRESS PREPARED BY WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH
(Continued from Last Week)
Chemistry Is Obstacle
“Chemistry is an insurmountable
1s ebstac e in the path of evolution. It
one of the greate t of sciences, it
separates the atoms isolates them
and walks above them, so to speak. If
there were in nature a progressive
force, an eternal urge, chemistry
:/ would find it. Hut it is not there. All
e 92 original elements are sepa
rate and distinct; they combine in
fixed and permanent proportions,
Water is 11-20, as it has been from
,
the beginning. It was here before life
appeared and has never changed;
neither can it be shown that, anything
else has materially changed.
“There is no morcr eason to believe
that man descended from some infe
* rior animal than there is to believe
that a stately mansion has descended
from a small cottage. Resemblances
an not proof they simply put us on
inquiry. As one fact, such as the ah
sence of the accused from the scene
of the murder, outweighs all the re
semblances that a thousand witnesses
could swear to, so the inability of
science to trace any one of the mil
lions of species to another species,
outweighs all the resemblances establish
which evolutionist rely to
man’s blood relationship with
brutes.
«i But while the wisest scientists
cannot prove a pushing power, such as
evolution is supposed to he there is
a lifting power that any child can un¬
derstand. The plant lifts the mineral
up into n higher world still higher.
So, it hns been reasoned by analogy,
man rises, not by a power within him
\ but only when drawn upward by
higher power. There is a spiritual
gravitation that draws all souls to¬
ward heaven, just as surely as there
is a physical force that draws all
matter on the surface of the earth
towards the earth’s center. Christ is
our drawing power; he said, 'I. if I
be lifted up from the earth, will draw
.11 mpn unto me- and his nromisc is
being fulfilled daily all over the
world.
“It must be remembered that the
law under consideration in this case
does not prohibit the teaching of evo¬
lution up to the line that separates
man from the lower forms of
life. The law might well have
farther than it does and prohibit
teaching of evolution in lower forms
of life; the law is a very conserva¬
tive statement of the people’s oppo¬
sition to an anti-Biblical hypothesis.
The defendant was not content to
teach what the law permitted; he, for
reasons of his owns, persisted in
teaching that which was forbidden for
reasons entirely satisfactory to the
lawmakers.
Few Understand
“Most of the people who believe in
evolution do not know what evolution
means. One of the science hooks
taught in the Dayton high school has
a chapter on ‘The Evolution of Ma¬
chinery.’ This is a very common mis¬
use of the term. People speak of the
evolution of the telephone, the auto¬
mobile, and the musical instrument.
But these are merely illustrations of
man’s power to deal intelligently
with inanimate matter; there is no
growth from within in the develop¬
ment of machinery.
‘‘Equally improper is the use of
the word ‘evolution’ to describe the
growth of a plant from a seed, the
growth of a chicken from an egg, or
the development of any form of ani¬
mal life from a single cell. All these
give us a circle, not a change from
one species to another.
“Evolution—the evolution involved
in this case, and the only evolution
that is a matter of controversy any¬
where—is the evolution taught by de
fendent, set forth in the books now
prohibited by the new state law, and
illustrated in the diagram printed on
page 194 of Hunter's Civic Biology.
The author estimates the number of
species in the animal kingdom at
618,900. These are divided into 18
classes, and each class is indicated on
the diagram by a circle, proportion¬
ate in size to the number of species
in each class and attached by a stem
to the trunk of the tree. It begins
with protozoa and ends with the mam¬
mals. Passing over the classes with
which the average man is unfamiliar,
let me call your attention to a few of
the larger and better known groups.
The insects are numbered at 360,000,
over two-thirds of the total number
of species in the animal world. The
fishes are numbered at 13,000, the
amphibians at 1,400, the reptiles at
3.500 and the birds are 13,000 while
3.500 mammals are crowded together
in a little circle that is barely higher
than the bird circle. No circle is re¬
served for man alone. He is, accord
ing to the diagram, shut up in the
mo, CM. entitled with
8,499 other i species of . mammals. |
Does it not seem a little unfair not
to distinguish between man and low
er forms of life? What shall we say
of the intelligence, not to say religion,
of those who are so particular to
distinguish between fishes and
tiles and birds, but put a man with
an immortal soul in the Hame circle
with I he wolf, the hyena and the
skunk? What must be the impression
made upon children by such a degra
dation of man ?
Book for Children
“In the preface of this book, the
author explains that it is for, chil¬
dren, and adds that ‘the boy or girl
of average ability upon admission to
the secondary school is not a think
ing individual.’ Whatever may he
said in favor of teaching evolution
to adults, it surely is not proper to
teach it to children who are not yet
able to think.
“The evolutionist does not under¬
take to tell us how protozoa, moved
by interior and resident forces,
life up through all the various spe
cies, and cannot prove that there was
actually any such compelling power
all. And yet, the school children
are asked to accept their guesses and
a philosophy of life upon them,
If it were not so serious a
one might he tempted to speculate
upon the various degrees of relation
ship that, according to evolutionists,
exist between man and other forms
of life. It might require some very
nice calculation to determine at what
degree of relationship the killiong of
a relative ceases to be murder and
the eating of one’s kin ceases to be
cnnabalism.
“But it is not a laughing matter
’ when one considers that evolution not
j ! only creator offers but tends no suggestions to put the as creative to a
' act far away as to cast doubt upon
so
creation itself. And, while it is
j 1 also ing faith creating in God doubt as a beginning to heaven it is
as a
at the end of life. Evolutionists do
not feel that it is incumbent upon
them to show how life began or at
what point in their long drawn-out
scheme of changing species man
came endowed with hope and
of immortal life. God may be a
ter of indifference to the
ists, and a life beyond may have
charm for them, but the mass of
kind will continue to worship their
creator and continue to find
in the promise of their Saviour
He has gone to prepare a place for
them. Christ has made of death a
narrow, star-lit strip between ' the
companionship of yesterday and the
reunion of tomorrow; evolution
strikes out the stars and deepens the
gloom that enshrouds the tomb.
Guess Not Enough
If the results of evolution were
un ' m P or tant, one might require less
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST, 13, 1925.
proof in support of the hypothesis,
but before accepting a new philoso
phy of life, built upon a materialis -1
tic foundation, we have reason to de-i
mand something than guesses; '
more
'»• Ml mm* >* .
fipiprif Ucient xiihstitutp substitute lor Thus tnus saith saitn the me
Lord ^
-
“If you, your honor, and you, gen
tlemen of the jury, would have an un
derstanding of the sentiment that lies
b “ k - - iheie “ h -
of evolution, please consider *he
facts that I shall now present to you.
First, as to the animals to which evo
lutionists would have us trace our an
cestry. The following is Darwin's
tree, as you will find it set
r o°f n p r l80 - 181 of hw I)es -
t M
(« t The most ancient progenitors in
the kingdom of vertebrata, at which
we are able to obtain an obscure
glance group ’otZZTlZT^rnll "f ‘Sing ascTdians
^^*ZS*nZL the larvae to
a group of fishes, as lowly organ,zed
as the lancelot;and from these the
ganoids and other fishes like the
lepidosiren, must have been develop
ed. From such fish a very small ad
vance would carry us on the amphi
bians. We have seen that birds and
reptiles were once intimately chained
together; and the monotremata now
connect mammals with reptiles in a
slight degree. But no one at present
can say by what line of descent the
three higher and related classes,
namely, mammals, birds and reptiles,
wered derived from the two lower
vertebrate classes, nanfely amphi
; bians and fishes. In the class of mam
j mals the steps are not difficult to
conceive which led from the ancient
,
I monotremata to the ancient marsu
pials; and from these to the early
progenitors of the placental mam
I mala. We may thus ascend to the
lemundae; and the interval is not
very wide from these to the simidaes.
The simiadae then branched off into
two great stems, the new world and
, | ld monkeys, and from the
“ world .a- t,
ter < at a remote period, man, the
j wonder and glory of the universe,
Proceeded. Thus we have given to a
nian a pedigree of prodigious length,
but not, it may be said, of noble
Hy- (Ed. 1874, Hurst.)
Words Are Vague
! I ■ Note the words implying
^ inty; ‘ ob ^ U re Kl “ nCe ’’
resembling , 1 < must have been
degree and conceive,
j “Darwin, on page 171 of the
hook, tries to locate his first
| ; that is, the first man to come
; out of the trees—in Africa.
j leaving man in company with
| useless and chimpanzees, he says- ‘But it
to speculate on this
If he had only thought of thi .
the world might have been
much of the speculation that
brute hypothesis has excited.
“On page 79 Darwin gives
fanciful reasons for believing
man is more likely to have descended
from the chimpnnzee than from
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gorilla. His speculations are an ex *,
cellent illustration of the effect that
the evolutionary hypothesis has in
cultivating the imagination. Profes
sor J. Arthur Thomson, says that the
of » the -»t potent
thought uiougi«w-oui^ economizing formula the
, more
' vor yL ' g
than hat; t d^en-e. Oiinkinc?
entirely and rohes on the
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is all animal . an . mal , ■ j w ; tb
never a thought of God ot ot rehgion.
.uii/rt f T ^7dic^nt against evo
the Bible account ^ creation
and shakes ^ith inj
or o > od. T ’h • weprove
described
the text of Gene
sis. It not only contradicts the Mo
^c record as to £ ***
hum*. life, but it d sputes the B.bL
doctrine k.nd-the of greatest ^oproduction scientific accordmgjo pnnci
pie kn “^
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liberties \o
, think know, to
he rignt to ,
utter, as *' 11 * the
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dearest of ail n e • without this
right there can b«* n° hberty«y
ery. people; When with you ’ ha 'TviLTihtk
ing men that it is rig it, am i< u
mane men that it is just, you will
gain your cause, Men always lose
half of what is gamed >> \uxnci.
What is gained by argument is gain
ed forever. Let us believe t'at <
whole of truth can never do ai m to
the whole of virtue. . . >< as
lesson a man ever learns is that o
liberty of thought and speech is the
right of all mankind; that the man
who denies every article of our
creed is to he allowed to preach
as often and just as loud as we our
selves. Wendell Phillips
j ‘The great and Love fertile spot in
is Love. When we have no love in
soul we have a mighty bumpy
to travel through life; and before
get near to the journey’s end our
hide of travel is teetotally
und j s i e f t a j orlg W ays from
place of safety. With our souls
of love , we have smooth sailing
ward the eternal shore and when
reach our journey's end, wo can
our vehicle of travel in good
an( | ontor j nto tbe nox t, world,
is made up of nothing but peace,
j,,y an( | everlasting
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AGRITEMS
Physical surveys have been made of
eighty-three Georgia counties, while
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tics hs\6 been complctcu.
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A dairyman deserves as many lux¬
uries as anyone, but a poor producing
• he afford.
cow is one even cannot i
Nearly five hundred farmers made
• of inspection of the campus,
a tour
farm and experimental fields of the
State College of Agriculture last
week.
Rainfall in some sections of Geor-j be-1
gia is more than twenty inches
low norma!, according to the report
of the weather bureau.
j { ten . gallon m j] k cans, ten
_ in width , circli „g the globe
, d just about hold the milk pro
in the United States^
Wilkins and the College dormitories
at a very low rate, it is said, and
preparations are being made for a
large number.
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FARMERS TO MEET
AT STATE COLLEGE
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armers an u siness rn
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cu i ture August 24 to 28 to discuss
problems in marketing, according to
an announcement from the institu
^ week The conference will
be held in conjunction with the an
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tural Society and the State Horticul
tural Society,
The strongest ^ possible program has
bepn arrangf £ . d> Collcge
d the foremost au
thorities on co-operative marketing
d.cuss I*^ma^o^y * r r rr ȣ t0
co-operatives of Georgia including the
Cotton, Peach, Peanut, Watermelon,
and others w Hl * represented and
will lend their efforts towards evolv
the pro minent me n to ap
the gram indude Dr . An .
M Sou , e and Prof j Phil
Campbell of the State College of Ag¬
riculture, Hon. Arthur R. Rule, Gen¬
eral Manager of the Federated
Fruit and Vegetable Growers of
York, Hon. L. F. McKay and the
( Amcrieun Cotton Growers, Hon. C.
' s. Barrett, President of the National
! Farmer’s Union and others.
Arrangements have been
whereby visitors will receive
and room accommodations in
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the contest for the most beautiful girl
the city. In private life she is
Ruth Woodall. She will represent
city in the national beauty contest
Atlantic City.
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Culling the poultry flock pays as
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practiced systematically.
More than 12,000 Georgia boys are
enrolled members of 4-HL
this year.
Still at It «
And now the Society for the Perpe
tration „f Jokes Against definition the ScotcJ^ of
broadcasting the a
Scotchman as one who, when invited
up to a friends house for a drink,
buys salted peanuts to eat on the way.
—Toronto Telegram.
It’s easier to say no to temptation
to stand by it, once it is said.
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month,” says Mr. J. P. ™
Ws Nevins, of Lawrenceburg, *
Hi Ky. “I would get nauseated. IP^
m I would have dizziness and §|p
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get relief.
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the work.”
M Bilious attacks are “sea- fflP
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