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ADDHESS PREPARED BY WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN JEST BEFORE HIS DEATH
(Continued from Last Week)
“Our third indictment against
lution is that it diverts attention
pressing problems of great
tance to trifling speculation.
one evolutionist is trying to
what happened in the dim past,
other is trying to pry open the
of the distant future. One
grew eloquent over ancient
and another predicted that
years hence every one will be
and toothless. Both those who
or to clothe our remote
with hair and those who endeavor
remove the hair from the heads
our remote descendants ignore
present with its imperative
The science of ‘How to Live’ is
most important of all the sciences.
is desirable to know the
sciences, hut it is necessary to
how to live. Christians desire
their children shall be taught all
sciences, but they do not want
to lose sight of the Rock of
■while they study the ago of
rocks; neither do they desire them
become so absorbed in measuring the
distance between the stars that they
will forget Him who holds the stars
in His Hand,
Vision Is Needed
‘‘While not more than two per cent
of our population are college grad
uates, these, because of enlarged pow
ers need a ‘heavenly vision’ even
,
more than those less learned, both
for their own restraint and to assure
society that their enlarged powers
will be used for the benefit of so¬
ciety and not against the public wel
jfere. the spirit¬
Evolution is deadening
ual life of a multitude of students.
Christians do not desire less educa¬
tion, but they desire that religion
shall be entwined with learning so
that our boys and girls will return
from college with their hearts aflame
with love of God and love of fellow
men and prepared to lead in the
truistic work that the world so sore
ly needs. The cry in the business
world, in the industrial world, in tho
professionnl world, in the political
world—even in the religious world—
is for consecrated talents—for ability
plus a passion for service.
Our fourth indictment against the
evolutionary hypothesis is that by
paralyzing the hope of reform it
courages those who labor for the im
provement of man’s condition. Every
upward-looking man or woman' seeks
to lift the level upon which mankind
stands, and they trust that they will
see beneficient changes during the
brief span of their own lives. Evolu
tion chills their enthusiasm by sub
Stituting aeons for years. It obscures
all beginnings in the mists of end
less ages. It is represented as a cold
and heartless process, beginning with
time and ending in eternity, and act
ing so slowly that even the rocks
cannot preserve a record of the im
aginary changes through which it is
credited with having carried an orig
inal germ of life that appeared some
time from somewhere. Its only pro
gram for man is scientfic breeding,
a system under which a few suppos¬
ed,'would edly superior intellects, self-appoint¬
direct the mating and the
movements of the mass of mankind—
an impossible system. Evolution, dis
puting the miracle, and ignoring the
spiritual life, has no place for the
regeneration of the individual, 11
recognizes no cry of repentance and
scoffs at the doctrine that one can
be born.
Unrelenting Enemy
It is thus the intolerant and un
relenting enemy of the only process
that can redeem society through the
redemption of the individual. An evo
lutionist would never write such a
atory as The Prodigal Son; it contra
diets the whole theory of
The two sons inherited from the
same parents and through their par
ents, from the same ancestors, proxi-
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BUSINESS COLLEGE
At Macon, Ga„ this institution has
been in operation for thirty-five
years. It has trained and placed in
positions with first class business
houses approximately twenty-five
thousand boys and girls, men and
women. Its students range from IS to
45 years in age. Some are widows
with the family burden suddenly fall
ing upon them, some are heads of
families, who found late in life that
the untrained man has unequal
chance in the struggle for success,
The boys and girls are being prepared
before life’s burdens fall upon them.
The college has made a national repu-
mate and remote. And these
were reared at the same fireside
■ were surrounded by the same
onment during all the days of
youth; and yet they were
If Mr. Darrow is correct in ... the
applied to Loeb, namely, that
! crime was due either to
j or to environment, how will he
plain the difference between the
brother and the wayward son?
evolutionist may understand from
servation, if not by experience,
though he cannot explain, why one
these hoys was guilty of every
mortality, squandered the
that the father had laboriously
ed and brought disgrace upon
family name; but his theory does
explain why a wicked young man
dorwent a change of heart,
his sin, and begged for
And because the evolutionists
understand this fact, one of the
important in the human life, he can¬
not understand the infinite love
the heavenly Father who stands
ready to welcome home any repent
a nt sinner, no matter how far he
has wandered, how often he has fall
en, or how deep he has sunk in sin.
Poem Quoted
Your honor has quoted from a
wonderful poem written by a great
Tennessee poet, Walter Malone, I
venture to quote another stanza
which puts into exquisite language
' the opportunity which merciful
new a
<; 0 d gives to every one who will turn
from sin to righteousness,
‘Though deep in mire, wring not
your hands and weep;
I lend my arm to all who say, I
can.”
No shame-faced outcast ever sank
so deep,
But he ♦might rise and be again a
man.’
‘There are no lines like these in all
that evolutionists have ever written,
, Darwin says that science has nothing
to do with the Christ who taught the
spirit embodied in the words of Wal
^ ter Malone, and yet this spirit is the
only hope of human progress. A
heart can be changed in the twink
'ling of an eye and a change in the
1Jfe follows a change in the heart. If
one heart can he changed, it is possi
that many hearts can be changed
and if many hearts can be changed
, jt is possible that all hearts can be
1 changed—that world can be born in
a
a da y. it j s this fact that inspires all
who labor for man’s betterment. It
; s because Christians believe in indi¬
v idual regeneration and in the regen
oration of society through the regene
ration of individuals that they pray,
‘Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
j n earth as it is in heaven.’
Evolution makes a mockery of the
Lord’s prayer,
“'[' 0 interpret the words to mean
that the movement desired must come
s i 0 wly through unfolding ages—a
process with which each generation
could have lin!e to do __ is to defe
hope, and hope deferred maketh the
heart s j c k.
Fifth Indictment.
Our fifth indictment of the evolu
tionary hypothesis is that, if taken J
seriously and made the basis of
philosophy 0 f life, it would elimiate
j ove Bnd carry man hack to a strug- \ j
gIo of tooth and c [ aw . The Christians
who have allowed themselves to be
det . e ; vod into belief that evolution
; s beneficent, or even a rational pro¬
cess, have been associating with those
who either do not understand its im
plications or dare not avow their
knowledge of these implications. Let \
me give you some authority on this
sub j ec t. I will begin with Darwin, the j
high pr j es t of evolution, to whom all
evolutionists bow.
'On pages 149 and 150, in The
Descent of Man,” already referred to,
he says:
“With savages, the weak in body
tation through its methods and the
success of its graduates. It has often
been able to boast that not a gradu
ate was without employment. It trains
private secretaries, bookkeepers, ste
nographers, bank clerks, secretary
treasurers, and Linotype and Inter
type operators. Its course is nation
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of this kind. Three firms this year
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or mind are soon eliminated; and
those that survive commonly exhibit
a vigorous state of health. We civi
lized men, on the other hand, do our
utmost to check the process- of elimi
I nation; we build asylums for the ini
becile, the maimed, and the sick; we
institute poor laws ;and our medical
men exert their utmost skill to save
the life of every one to the last mo¬
ment. There is reason to believe that
vaccination has preserved thousands
who from a weak constitution would
formerly have succumbed to small¬
pox. Thus the weak members of civi¬
lized society propagate their kind. No
one who has attended to the breeding
of domestic animals will doubt that
this must be highly injurious to the
race of man. It is surprising how
soon a want of care, or care wrongly
directed, leads to the degeneration of
a domestic race; but, excepting in the
case of man himself, hardly any one
is so ignorant as to allow his worst
animals to breed.
Instinct of Sympathy.
“The aid which we feel impelled to
give to the helpless is mainly an in¬
cidental result of the instinct of
sympathy, which was originally ac¬
quired as part of the social instincts,
hut subsequently rendered, in the
manner previously indicated, more
tender and more widely diffused. Now
could be check our sympathy, even
at the urging of hard reason, with¬
out deterioration in the noblest part
of our nature . . . We must there
fore bear the undoubtedly had effects
of the week surviving and propagat
ing their kind.
"Darwin reveals the barbarous sen¬
timent that runs through evolution
and dwarfs the moral nature of those
who become obsessed with it. Let us
analyze the quotation just given.
Darwin speaks with approval of the
savage custom of eliminating the
weak so that only the strong will
survive and complains that ‘we civi¬
lized men do our utmost to check the
process of elimination.’
“How inhuman such a doctrine as
this! He thinks it injurious to build
asylums for the imbecile, the maim¬
ed, and the sick,' or to care for the
poor. Even the medical men come in
for criticism because they ‘exert
their utmost skill to save the life of
every one to the last minute.’ And
then note his hostility to vaccination
because it has ‘preserved thousands
who, from a weak constitution, would
but for vaccination, have succomhed
to small pox.’ All of the sympathetic
activities of civilized society are con¬
demned because they enable ‘the
wteak members to propagate their
kind.’ Then he drags mankind down 1
to the level of the brute and corn
pares the freedom given to man un¬
favorably with the restraint that we
put on barnyard beasts.
Heart Rebelled
“The second paragraph of the above
quotation shows that his kindly heart
rebelled against the cruelty of his
own doctrine. He says that we ‘feel
impelled to give to the helpless,’ al
though he traces it to a sympathy
wk ’ ck * ie thinks is developed by eva
lution; he even admits that we could
not check this s V m P»t h y ‘ even at the
of hard reason, without de¬
terioration the noblest part of
our nature.’
“We must therefore bear’ what he
regards as ‘the undoubtedly bad ef
fect of the weak surviving and propa
atin « their kind -’ Could “"Y doctrine
be more destructive of civilization?
And what a commentary on evolu
tion .;
“He wants us to believe that evo¬
lution develops a human sympathy
that finally becomes so tender that it
repudiates the law that created it
and thus invites a return to a level
where the extinguishing of pity and
sympathy will permit the brutal in
stincts to «£ ai » do their Progressive
work -
Let no one think that this accept
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‘MMf suin'
anee of barbarism as the basic
ciple of evolution died with
t
Within three years a book has
peared whose author is even
frankly brutal than Darwin.
book is entitled ‘The New
I of Science,’ and has attracted
! atention. One of our most reputable
magazines has recently printed an
tide by him defining the religion
a scientist. In his preface he
knowledges indebtedness to twenty
one prominent scientists and educa
tors, nearly all of them ‘doctors' and
‘professors.’ One of them ,who has
recently been elevated to the head of
a great state university, read the
manuscript over twice ‘and made
many invaluable suggestions.’ The
author describes Niezsche, who, ac
cording to Mr. Darrow, made a mur
derer out of Babe Ixiopold, as ‘the
bravest soul since Jesus.’ He admits
that Nietzsche was ‘gloriously
wrong,’ not certainly, but ‘perhaps,’
in many detals of technical know
ledge, but he affirms that Nietzsche
was ‘gloriously right in his fearness
questioning of the universe and of
his own soul.’
Morals of Jungle.
a In another place, the author says
‘most of our morals today are jungle
products,’ and then he affirms that
‘it would be safer, biologically, if
they were more so now.’ After these
two samples of his views, you will
not besurprised when I read you the
following (see page 34):
“ ‘Evolution is a bloody business,
but civilization tries to make it a
pink tea. Barbarism is the only pro
cess by which man has ever organi
cally progressed, and civilization is
the only process by which he has
ever organically declined. Civilization
is the most dangerous enterprise up
on which man ever set out. For when
■
you take man out of the bloody, bru¬
tal, but beneficient, hand of natural
selection, you place him at once in
the soft, perfumed, daintily gloved,
but far more dangerous hand of arti
ficial selection. And, unless you call
science to your aid and make this ar
tificial selection as efficient as the
rude methods of nature, you bungle
the whole task.’
“ ‘This aspect of evolution may
amaze some of the ministers who
have not been admitted to the inner
circle of the iconoclasts whose theo
ries menace all the ideals of civilized
society. Do these ministers know that
“evolution is a blood business?” Do
they know that “barbarism” is the
only process by which man has ever
organically declined?” Do they know
that “the bloody, brutal hand of na
tural selection is “beneficient?”
What shall we think of the disting¬
uished educators and scientists who
read the manuscript before publica¬
tion and did not protest against this
pagan doctrine?
World-Wide Matter
“To show that this is a world-wide
matter, I now quote from a book is¬
sued from the press in 1918, seven
years ago. The title of the book is
“The Science of Power,” and its au¬
Benjamin Kidd, being an Eng¬
lishman, could not have any national
prejudice against Darwin. On pages
46 and 47 we find Kidd’s interpreta¬
of evolution:
“ ‘Darwin’s presentation of the evo¬
of the world as the product of
natural selection is never-ceasing war
n product, that is to say, of a
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struggle in which the individual ef
ficient in the fight for his own in
terests was always the winning type
—touched the profoundest depths of
the psychology of the west. The idea
seemed to present the whole order of
progress in the world as the result of
a purely mechanical and materialis
tic process resting on force. In so
doing it was a conception which
reached the springs of that heredity
j born of the unmeasured ages of con
quest out of which the western mird
has come. Within half a century the
: ‘Origin of Species’ had become the
Bible of the doctrine of the omnipo
! tence of force.’
| Kidd goes so far as to charge that
‘Nietzsche’s teaching represented the
' interpretation of the popular Darwin
ism delivered with the fury and in
, tensity of genius.’ And Nietzsche, be
it remembered, denounced Christiani
ty as the ‘doctrine of the degenerate,’
and democracy as ‘the refuge of
| weaklings.’
“Kidd says that Nietzsche gave
Germany the doctrine of Darwin’s ef¬
ficient animal in the voice of his su
perman, and that Bernhardi and the
military text books in due time gave
Germany the doctrine of the super¬
man translated into the national pol
icy of the super-state aiming at
world power. (Page 67).
“And what else hut the spirit of
evolution can account for the popular
J ity of the selfish doctrine, ‘each one
for himself, and the devil take the
j hindmost,' that threatens the very
' existence of the doctrine of brother
i hood.
j Editorial Quoted
j “In 1900—twenty-five years ago—
J while an International Peace congress
was in session in Paris, the following
editorial appeared in L'Univers:
“ ‘The spirit of peace has fled the
earth because evolution has taken
possession of it. The plea for peace
in past years has been inspired by
faith in the divine nature and the di
j vine origin of man, men were then
looked upon as children of apes, what
matters it whether they are siaugh
tered or not.’
»• When there is poison in the blood,
no one knows on what part of the
body it will break out, but we can be
sure that it will continue to break
out until the blood is purified. One of
the leading universities of the south
(I love the state too wel! to mention
its name) publishes a monthly maga
zine entitled ‘Journal of Social
_ Forces. , , In „ the January , issue of . this .
vear, a contributor , has a lengthy ,, ar-
1
tide , ... Sociology . , and , Ethics, . , .
on in
the , course of which , he says: i
will made take <
“No attempt be to |
up the matter of the good or evil of i
sexual intercourse among humans
aside from the matter of conscious
procreation, but as an historian, it
might be worth while to ask the ex¬
ponents of the impurity complex to
explain the fact that without excep¬
tion, the great periods of cultural af
florescence have been those charac¬
terized by a large amount of free¬
dom in sex relations, and that those
of the greatest cultural degradation
and decline have been accompanied
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with greater sex repression and puri¬
ty.’
Loathsome Application
“No one charges or suspects that
all or any large percentage of the
advocates of evolution sympathize
with this loathsome application of
evolution to social life, but it is worth
while to inquire why those in charge
of „ great institution . . . of . , learning al- ,
a
, low such , filth , to be , poured , out for ,
the , stirring . . of _ the of its
passions
students. ,
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Southeastern Christian Advocate of
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ing m an answer to the question,.
“Will civilization survive?’ Their re
ply is that:
“ ‘The greatest danger menacing
our civilization is the abuse of the A
achievements of science. Mastery over .
the forces of nature has endowed the J
twentieth century man with a power
which he is not fit to exercise. Un¬
less the development of morality
catches up with the development of
technique, humanity is bound to de¬
stroy itself.’
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