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EVOLUTION AND DARWINISM.
LECTURE AT ST. PATRICK'S CLUB.
SATURDAY,
INDIAN MEMORIAL.
MONUMENT UNVEILED IN
FRANCE.
Lille, Oct. 7,
whose
OCTOBER -- 8
1927.
EGYPTIAN COTTON.
THE LATE SIR PAUL.
CROP IN ADVANCE OF LAST COMMITTEE CONSIDERING A
YEAR.
SITE FOR STATUE.
A committee composed of pro- minent European and Chinese re-
Cairo, Oct. 7. Lord Birkenhead in the presence On Thursday evening Rev. Fr.
The condition of the cotton crop G. Byrno, Ph.D., lectured at St. of General Foch. Maharaja Ka- Patrick's Club, Garden Road, to a purthala, Sir Claud Jacob, Sir in September in Lower Egypt is assidents, of which the chairman is large audience, on the subject: Charles Anderson, commander of follows: in the middle section 98 the Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, is "Evolution: Half a Century of the Indian army in France, and and in the upper 100. In Egypt considering a proposal to erect a Darwinism: Faith and Facts." many representatives of the Inproper it was 90. The crop is ten memorial statue to the late Sir The rev, speaker, who has made a dian army, anveiled the memorial life study of the subject of evolu- at Neuvechapelle in remembrance days in advance of that year. The Paul Chater. tlon, spoke for one and a half of the Indian army in France. bollworm attack is about the same, hours. The lecture was illustrat- The memorial is inscribed with -Reuter, ed with some most interesting the names of 4,847 men slides.
graves are unknown. It is erected in a circular enclosure with A grass lawn, in the centre of which it stands. The stone of remom- brance is a fifty foot column and stands in the foreground sur- mounted by a lotus capital and- crown, flanked by two tigers. A solid wall extends halfway round, whereon are carved all the names of the dead.-Reuter,
The following is an outline of the lecture:.
Some years ago, the distinguished biologist Dricach said: "For or lightened minds Darwinism is dead." This year, in his presidential address to the British Association, Sir Arthur Keith speaks of Darwin's position as having become "impregnable. The ordinary layman who may like to follow, with interest, the scientie conclusions of the day, must be per- plexed by such opposite statements, made by distinguished Scientists
We propose to examine briefly the meaning of the word "Evolution," and something about the facts and conclusions on which the theory of Evolution resta
swifter of foot than the parent hares, in which case he would be better equipped for the battle of life, as more readily escaping from danger.
Variations of дл advantageous kind might be passed on and so, in time, tend to form a new species. "Can we doubt that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the beat chance of surviving, and of procreating their kind?" asks Darwin.
Natural Selection.
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the man. The collection is still in- complete, and the "link" between man and monkey is as missing a link as it was in the days of Darwin. We rend at times of the "food" of evidence. The "flood" consists of a Now it is just here that the few skulls, some pieces of bones, and difficulty arises. It is possible not some skeletons grouped around them. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ; only to doubt bet to disbelieve the It was remarked that they could all theory of "Natural Selection," as exfit into the back of a small Ford de- plaining 11 continuous series of livery van.
know, Life appeared, a mysterions species
Bone Evidence.
In his address. Sir Arthur Keith
RULES REVISED.
The earth is covered with a variety of things; there are minerals and flowers and Insecte and animals. Most people take them for granted; were they not always there? "No" is the very definite answer of Science, for there was a time when the earth was so intensely hot that these living things could not have existed upon it. It had to cool down first, and it re- quired a long time before it became sufficiently cool to sustain life." But, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, "somehow or other, in manner at present variations worked out to produce new
New York, Oct. 7. a higher type. Hence to- entity with apparently the potentiality, day, as in Darwin's life-time, we meet
The Board of Governors of the of slow and infinite development." with Scientists who are completely
Christians, if asked how life ap- opposed in their views of his theories, mentions the pieces with which any New York Stock Exchange has, ap- peared, would answer "By & creative as the quotations from Driesch and one who has read the literature of proved the new provisions govern-. act of God," and would, most pro-heith show. We might cite Lankaster evolution must be familiar: The top ing the listing of stocks of foreign bably, say that each individual kind as a strong supporter of the "Sue of skull, teeth and thigh-bone found companies. It is intended to make the in Java. Out of theso has been the Exchange an international of living thing was originally created vival of the Fittest" and, on by God, and endowed by Him with ether hand, the opinion of the Ras-constructed a man. Are we really market-only for companies which sian Botanist, Korschinsky, that justified in forming any conclusion? have been operating at least two the power of propagating its own Natural Selection is in no way The first difficulty is to prove that years. In the permitted list of kind. They might be surprised to favourable to the origin of new forms, they belong to the same individual, siccks provision is made to ex- hear that St. Augustine, S. Gregory It is a factor inimical to evolution." for they were found apart. The clude foreign companies which are of Nyssa, St. Thomas Aquinas and
second difficulty is to prove that they many equally orthodox Christians be-.
If one takes up some of the cheap were human remains. Some say the in default with their obligations. lieved in "spontaneous generation," manuals on Evolution, and they are skull is human, others it is of an that is that, in certain cases, living constantly appearing, he will read of ape, others intermediate between the matter spontaneously arose from the "Fact of Evolution" and, he will two. dead matter.
be assured that no one can doubt it, in these days." We must regret such statements. They are untrue. and a departure from trath must in- fure, not serve, the cause of genuine
Darwin's own works is comparative-
institution.-Router's
Small concerns are barred from making applications for listing. and must declare there are no Then comes the "Piltdown skull." Governmental restrictions against Very wonderful changes take place
This skull was in a very imperfect payment interest and dividends to in Nature, and there are so many
condition; the efforts of reconstruc American holders. If original different kinds of living things 20
tion were unhappy. The jaw found securities are excluded they must like one another in bodily structure that we may ask is it possible that Science. Many talk glibly of "Dar- with it was proríounced by Professore in the form of registered cer- one kind of plant or one kind of winism," but the number who have Osborn to be that of a Chimpanzee. tificates or deposit issued by ap
It is not to be wondered then that proved American Institution or an animal should, in the course of mans ly small. Darwin was very modest Sir Arthur Keith writes there ure American branch of an approved years, gradually become another
in his conclusions, and did not label kind. Long before Darwin,
record of man's evolution." He American Service. thoughtful minds had expmined this "Facts" statements which were still great blanks in the geological foreign
only theories. There is a very big hopes, as do the many Scientists who question and some believed that
difference. Recently there was much share his views, that these blanks gradual change had gone on in the damage done by a typhoon. The will one day be filled in. course of centuries, so that one "Facts" are the ruined houses, the the man in the street, to think of it What is species or kind of living thing was
uprooted trees, the roads covered transformed into another. Thus the with rock-fragments, &c. If I did all? He ought first to realise that carliest remains of birds, found in got know of the typhoon, I might Evolution, no matter how many learn so far failed to meet with any of a the earth, were more reptile-like offer various explanations of how ed supporters it may claim, is only convincing nature, and so we prefer to abide by the verdict "not proven," Is it possible that the bird owes its this happened; they might be quite a theory. It is a theory which has sharing the view of a writer to the stimulated much scientific work and literary supplement of the Times who thought, and so far it is good. But said:"No one possessed of a sense life and it could not do so. As Sir amusement the battle of evolution, it does not explain the begining of of humour, can contemplate without Oliver Lodge says: "Of ultimate encrimsoned (dialectically speaking) origins science knows nothing. Its
appearance than the birds of to-day.
origin to the reptile? We know that and elimate, food, cross-breeding various other factors bring about changes in animals, sometimes. of quite
a marked character. Could not all. these forces, working natural- ly in the course of long ages, effect even more striking changes?
Darwin Enters.
sufficient to account for the damage, and so he very plausible, but they are only theories and they happen to
be false.
Theory and Fact.
methods enable it to infer with more with the gore of innumerable combat- Now let us apply this principle to or less accuracy what will be from ants, encumbered with the corpses of the (dialectically) slain, and resound- Evolution, and for practical purposes what is; and with somewhat greater ing with the cries of the living as let us take the supposed Evolution of confidence to gather information
they hustle, together in the fray. Man from the ape, to which Sir Aabout the past from the present, In Here are zoologista, embryologists, ferring from what was, at any given botanists, morphologists, biometri- epoch, something of what went on cians, anthropologists, sociologists, before it."
persons with banners and without;
recent Presidential Address.
Darwinians and neo-Darwinians,
the
In 1801 a Scientist, named Lamarck, Keith devotes some attention in his replied: "Yes, it is so. All species, including man, are descended from: Many Scientists, hold that if we other specics." He believed the modi- were sufficiently curious about our
No Conflict.
Lamarckanians and neo-Lamarckians, fications to have been mainly caused ancestors investigation would 'reveal by (a) physical conditions of life, them to us as monkeys in the forest.
There is a kind of idea that Evolu- Galtonians, Haeckelians, Weisman- (b) crossing of existing forms. (e) Now why do they think this? No one tion and Religion are opposed. This nians, de Vrieslans, Mendelians, Her- use or disuse of organs. Lamarck can deny that there is a considerable is not so, if the Evolution meant is twigians, and many
more whom it enumerate, had his followers, but it was not resemblanco, in bodily structure, be- the Evolution of which Science is com- would be tedious to until 1859 that Darwin published his tween man and ape; Scientists can petent to speak. But if the so-called Never was seen such a molee; The book entitled: "The Origin of Species point out further affinities, as in the Evolution attempts to explain the humour of it all is, that they all by means of Natural Selection or nature and reactions of the blood. origin or the soul of man, it has claim to represent "Science," the Preservation of Favoured Races Further, archaeological researches strayed away from the paths of serene, the majestic, the absolutely in the Struggle of Life." We give have unearthed various speelmens of Science, for, of such ultimate origins, sure, the undivided and immutable, Darwin's own title: It is important, human workmanship and human re-es Lodge truly says, Science knows the one and only vice-gerent of Truth, It tells us exactly what Darwin's mains in the earth. The tools used nothing. It has taken a false turn, her other self........ Yet it would personal contribution to the question by these ancient men were of a and being false must run counter to puzzle them to point to a theological battlefield exhibiting more uncertain- meant. Darwin accepted Transform- primitive and rough kind, pointing to religious truth. iam, which was an old theory, but he a rudimentary civilization. Some
ty, obscurity, dissension, assumption offered the Scientific world a new ex- akulls and other skeletonic parts found If anyone wishes to believe that and fallacy than their own. For the planation of how it might take place. indicated, in the opinion of many his body must trace its ancestry back plain truth is that, though some agres His book WAR written to an- Scientists, a type of man-much closer to the ape, we do not know of any in this and that, there is not a single fold this theme. Briefly it may to the ape than the man of to-day, religious principle which need take point in which all agree; battling be stuted thus; Living
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