1927-10-08 — Page 11

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1927.

VOLUTION.

TURE AT ST. PATRICK'S

CLUB

IAN AND THE APE,·

Thursday evening the Rev. Byrne, Ph.D., S.J.. lectured Patrick's Club, Garden Road, rge audience on the subject: tion: Half a Century of nism': Falth and Facts" ecture was illustrated with Interesting slides.

Briefly. It may be stated thus: living creatures have a general re semblance to their parents, but they also differ from them. Thus the young hare may be swifter of foot than the parent hares, in which case he would be better equipped for the battle of life, ne more readily escaping from danger.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MOTOR SMASH.

THREE KILLED AND NINE INJURED.?

ATTACK BY VILLAGERS.

Three men were killed and ning others were injured when an auto- mobile, owned and driven by J. L. Johnson, of Manila, crashed into u corner tienda at Bacoor, Cavite, about 8 p.m. on September 25, re- ports the "Manila Bulletin."

Then comes the "Piltdown skull." This skull was in a very imperfect condition, the efforts of reconstruc- tion were unhappy. The Jaw found asks with it was pronounced by Pro- fessor Osborn to be that of a chimpanzee.

1. Only a Theory, ritish Association; Sir Arthur theory of "Natural Selection," na. It is not to be wondered than that! ber, were injured.

variations worked out to produce; Sir Arthur Keith writes "there are species of a higher type. still great blanks in the geological new Hence to-day, as in Darwin's life- record of man's evolution."

Now it is just here that the dif- culty arises. It is possible nat only to doubt but to disbelieve the explaining a continuous series

of

one who has read the literature of evolution must be familiar: The top of skull, teeth and thigh-bone found in Java. Out of these haa been constructed aman. Are we really justified in forming any con- clusion? The first difficulty is to prove that they belong to the same individual, for they were found Natural Selection. Phy

apart. The second difficulty is to prove that they were human rd- Variations of an advantageous mains. Some say the skull is hu- kind might be passed on and son man, others it is of an ape, others time, tend to form a new species: intermediate between the two, "Can we doubt that individuals having any advantage,

have the slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving, and of o years ago, said the lectur- procreating thefr kind?"

distinguished biologist, Darwin. he ch, anid: "for enlightened Darwinism is dead." This in his presidential address to speaks of Darwin's position ving become "impregnable." rdinary layman who may like low, with interest, the scienti- nclusions of the day, must be xed by such opposite state ade by distinguished Scien- e earth is covered with. ty of things; there are min- and flowers and insects and als. Most people take them ranted; were they not alwaya "No" is the very definite er of Science, for there was ne when the earth was so in bly hot that these living things not haya existed upon it. It to cool down first, and it re- ed a long time before it became elently cool to sustain life. as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, hehow or other, in manner at ent unknown, Life appeared,

sterious entity with apparently otentiality of slow and in- development."

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The men who were killed were in the tienda together with two other persons, who were injured, and were crushed under the auto. All occupants of the car, seven in num-

Ambrosis Gregorio Navarro, He Jimenez and Mateo Sabino, all of time, we meet with Scientists who hopes, as do the many scientists Bacoor, were killed. The first two are completely opposed in their who share his views that. these mentioned received broken riba and

blanks will one day be filled in. Internal injuries that views of his cheerleadeth show. What is the man in the street to almost immediate death. Sabino tions from Driesch

show. think of it all? He ought first to died about 10 p.m. at the Philip We might elle Lankaster as A strong supporter of the "Survival realise that Evolution, no matter pine General Hospital, where he of the Fittest" and, on the other how many learned supporters hand, the opinion of the Russian may claim, is only a theory. It is was rushed for medical treatment.

Players in Car. Botanist, Korschinsky, that Na- a theory which has stimulated much scientific work and thought,| in no way tural Selection "e

With the exception of Mr. John- of new and so far it is good. favourable to the origin forms. It is a factor inimical to ginning of life and it could not do old son of George A. Gaynor, of But is does not explain the be- aon, and Frederick Gaynor, five-year evolution.".

so. As Sir Oliver Lodge says: "Of Cavite, the occupants of the car, Facts of Evolution.

ultimate origins selence knows If one takes up some of the cheap nothing. Its methods enable it to were members of the All-American manuals on Evolution, and they are infer with more or less accuracy Cavite baseball team, which played constantly appearing, he wil what will be from what is; and a series of two games in Manila read of the "Fact of Evolution" and with somewhat greater confidence Sunday. he will be assured that "no one can to gather information about the Mr. Johnson was taking the play- doubt it, in these daya." We must past from the present, inferring ers home when the necident occur- regret such statements. They are from what was, at any given epoch, red. untrue, and a departure from truth something of what went on before must injure not serve the cause of it." genuine Science. Many talk glibly There is a kind of.ides that Evo- A. Gaynor; Claude A. Hamm, Wil. From The Dead.

of "Darwinism," but the number lation and Religion are opposed. liam H. Ashbey, Arthur J. Provost istians, if asked how life ap who have read Darwin's own works This is not so, if the Evolution and Roy M. Patrick, of the Cavite i

would answer, "by a crea- is comparatively amall. Darwin meant IB the Evolution of navy yard; Frederick Gaynor, son it of God, and would, most was very modest in his conclusions, which Science is competent to of George Gaynor; Mr. Johnson; ly say that each individual and did not label as "facta" state speak. But if the so-called Evolu- Agustin Mirands, and Clemente of living thing was originally ments which were only theories. tion attempts to explain the origin Mainwig, of Bacoor. ed by God, and endowed by There is a very big difference. of the soul of man, it has strayed with the power of propagating Recently there was much damage away from the paths of Science, for,

Mr. Johnson and Mr. Gaynor are wn kind. They might be aur done by a typhoon. The "facts" of such ultimate origins, as Lodge the most seriously injured accord- to hear that St. Augustine, are the ruined houses, the uprooted truly says, Science knows nothing.ing to physicians. In charge at the gory of Nyasa. St. Thomas trees, the roads covered with rock-It has taken a false turn, and being Canacao Naval Hospital. Both of and and many equally orthodox Fragments, &c. If I did not know false must run counter to religious Mr. Johnson's legs were broken, lans believed in "spontaneous of the typhoon, I might offer var!- truth, etion," that is that, in certain our explanation of how this hap- giving matter spontaneously pened; they might be all quite suffi-

from dead matter.

cient to account for the Very wonderful changes take ace in Nature, and there are so any different kinds of living Ings so like one another in bodily fucture that we may ask is it pos) ble that one kind of plant or one nd of animal should, in the course many years, gradually become Lind. Long before Darwin, ful minds had examined this a and some belleved that a adual change had gone on,

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e course of centuries, so that one tries or kind of living thing was ansformed into another. Thus

From Other Species,

damage,

Back To The Ape.

take the axe

The injured persons are George

Both bones in the left leg were fractured. Mr. Gaynor, received u deep laceration in the right leg.

and so be very plausible, but they his body must trace its

If anyone wishes to believe that ancestry are only theories and they happen back to the ape, we do not know of

Tienda Owner Hurt. it to be false.

Augustin Mitanda, owner of the Now let us apply this principle any religious principle which need to Evolution, and for practical pur;

to destroy his wrecked tienda at Bacoor, suffered poses

ather a dislocation of the right arm, Jet us take the supposed genealogical tree; on the Evolution of Man from the age, to hand, with mind perfectly to value while Clemente Malawig sustained duly any evidence that may be) some

offered, we have ao far failed to a lacerated right arm. Both are in their homes at meet with any of a convincing na- being treated ture, and so we prefer to abide by Buccor. the verdict "not proven," sharing William Ashbey, the Cavite base- the view of a writer to the literary ball team's star pitcher, escaped supplement of the "Times" who with only a slight cution his face. said:"No one possessed of.

He was released from the hospital

which Sir A. Keith devotes attention in his recent Presidential

Address.

Reveal Us As Monkeys. Many scientists hold that if we were sufficiently eurious about our ancestors investigation would re-

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Tytam Byewash. mote striking changes?

were of a persona with bonners and without; primitive and rough kind, painting Darwinians and neo-Darwinians, conducted on September 26 by the Tytam Tuk

An investigation of the accident Tytam Intermediate to a rudimentary civilisation. Some Lamarckanians and neo-Lam- In 1801 a scientist, named Lam- akulls and other skeletonic parts arcklans, Galtonians, Haeckelians, authorities at Cavite revealed that Wong Nel Chung arck, replied: "Yes, it is so. All found indicated, in the opinion of Weismannians, de Vriesians, Men- when entering the village of Bacoor, species, including

are many scientists, a type of man delians, Hertwigians, and many Mr. Johnson's automobile, in mak- man, descended from other species." He much closer to the ape than the man more whom it would be tedious to ing its way through a parade crowd,

enumerate. believed the modifications to have of to-day.

struck a small boy, knocking him Much work was spent over these Never was seen such a melee! The been mainly caused by (a) physi-' cal conditions of life, (b) crossing relics, and it was hoped to com- humour of it all ls, that they all down. The boy escaped uninjured, of existing, forma, (c) use or dis- plete the collection some day, and claim to represent "Science," the according to reports at Bacoor, but

330,55 22.37 Lamarck had his to show the gradual shaping of the serene, the majestic, the absolutely a large crowd which had gathered Tythm Byewash

2:42 ise of organs.

invers, but it was not until 1859 ape into the man. The collection is sure, the undivided and immutable, around the scene, became enraged Tytam Intermediate 195.90

195,90 Darwin published his book still incomplete, and the "link" be the one and only vice-gerent of and attacked the occupants of the Tytam Tuk ...... 1,419.00 1,410.00 30.34 11.45 led: "The Origin of Species by tween man and monkey is as miss- Truth, her other self........ Yet it car. The baseball players and their Wong Nei Chung...

it was in the days of would puzzle them to point to a driver were greeted with a fusilade

60,00 link enns of Natural Selection or the ing

51.06 Darwin. We rend at times of the theological. battlefield exhibiting of rocks, stones and pieces of iron, Preservation of Favoured Races in

2,118,41 2,010,89 the Struggle of Life." We give "food" of evidence. The "flood" more uncertainty, obscurity, dis- Darwin's own title: it is important. consists of a few skulls, some picces sension, assumption and fallacy and a policeman fred two shots. Consumption of water in the City To escape the enraged mob, Mr. and Hill District-in millions and de It tells us exactly what Darwin's of bones, and some skeletons group personal contribution to the ques-ed around them. It was remarked truth is that, though some agree in Johnson turned off the lights of cimals of gallons during the month of

Darwin tn meant.

on September, accepted that they could all fit into the back this and that, there is not a single his automobile and hurried Transformism, which was an old of a small Ford delivery van. point in which all agree; battling through the village in the direction theory, but he offered the Scientific world a new explanation of how it might take place. His book was! written to unfold this theme.

Interest taken by American

Human Remains?

In his address Sir Arthur Keith mentions the pieces with which any-

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Pageant being held from Septe créase of

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02:24 itd. October, 8.1 President; fuch was attained bringi

than their own. For the plain

Pokfulum

Total

1026 1927 268,24 914.54

for evolution, they have torn it to of Cavite. Upon approaching the Estimated population 405,040. 415,360

Consumption ..... pieces; nothing is left, nothing at

the Consumption per head all on their showing, saving a few Bacoor bridge, which lies on

outskirts of the village,. the car per day

22.0 25.2) fragments strewn about the arena.

came to a sharp turn in the road, triets during September, 1926 and Fall Supply in all Rider Main Dis- almost a right-angle turn. Mr. 1927... Johnson attempted to make It. The car akidded rolled down an inclino that bandke the curve and demolish-

ed the Mitanda tienda..

Tree Jack-Knifed.

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Storage in millions and decimals de of gallonas ata

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The crowd, which had given chase to the Johnson car upon its en-owloon Reservoir. 852.60844.71 trance into Bacoor, balted when Shek Lai Pul Reservoir 100.80 100.50 they saw the crash and kept at a Reception Reservoir distance. The driver of a passing

NSK Total

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Consumption of water in Kowloon learned, stopped at the wreck, aum- moned the crowd of Filipinos to his in millions and decimals of gallons dur-

ing the month of September assistance, picked up the injured A

1920 1027 members of the baseball team and Consumption WETNE 61.78 105.88 Mr Johnson, and rushed, them to Estimated population 168,880 181,920 Canacao Hospital. -*

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