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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 ;; : .t a MISS FORT VALLEY AT NIAGARA FALLS! There , she will spend the day; she will see the Canadian and American Falls , the W hirlpool , the Rapids 9 and leaving , will have a ride on the Scenic Gorge Route , sail down the Niagara river , across Lake Ontario to Toronto , Canada. .. Miss Fort Valley ” will visit , on her Wonderful Two Weeks Tour - New York , Washington 9 Philadelphia , Atlantic City , Baltimore , Cincinnati , Savannah , and other points. She will have the trip of her lifetime with all expenses paid. YOU CAN TAKE THIS TOUR. GET VOTES BY DEALING WITH THESE FIRMS Adams Tire. Battery & Mrs. M. T. Wise Georgia Grocery and Filling Station Singletary’s Franklin Theatre Cash Market Copeland's Pharmacy and Tea Room Fort Valiev Motor Co. Georgia Agricultural Works 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 n m ' m , . .. f , & tke , am « *' n< ' T)or “ ‘ ’ an j ma i s . Tt 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 “^ Next Wcek) liberties \o , think know, to he rignt to , utter, as *' 11 * the * 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 Casey in The Alpharetta Fee ———— "" Hall's Medicine will do what v claim f r it rid your system of Catarrh or caused by Catarrh. Sold by druggist$ for over 40 years F. |. CHENEY &. 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So easy to cony the little pocket) WRKLETS meal!,*§ |[ - after every FARMERS TO MEET AT STATE COLLEGE . . armers an u siness rn t „,. 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 - -mm. - .d, s..t, Agscui. 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 »£ 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 ! 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A little higher in price hut no other coal equals 4 , it for giving satisfaction. W. L. HOUSER 1 Culling the poultry flock pays as as any job done on the farm, 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. Frequent Bilious Attacks H Ugjjj “1 suffered with severe §p Sjj gjg bilious two attacks three that times came each on gp or gj| month,” says Mr. J. P. ™ Ws Nevins, of Lawrenceburg, * Hi Ky. “I would get nauseated. IP^ m I would have dizziness and §|p g::; couldn’t work. 1 would take gp Sfl P‘IIs until 1 was worn-out X Eg ™ with them. I didn’t seem to get relief. 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