THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



MAY, 1894. 



NEW CHAPTERS IN THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE. 

 XIX. FKOM CREATION TO EVOLUTION. 

 By ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, LL. D., L. H. D., 



EX-PKESIDENT OF CORNELL TJNIVEBSITY. 



PART III. 



THEOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC THEORIES OF AN EVOLUTION IN ANIMATED 



NATURE. 



WE have seen, thus far, how there came into the thinking of 

 mankind upon the visible universe and its inhabitants the 

 idea of a creation virtually instantaneous and complete, and the 

 conception of a Creator in human form with human attributes, 

 who spoke matter into existence literally by the exercise of His 

 throat and lips, and who shaped and placed it with His hands and 

 fingers. 



We have seen that this view came from far ; that it existed in 

 the Chaldfeo-Babylonian civilization and probably in others of the 

 earliest date known to us ; that its main features passed thence 

 into the sacred books of the Hebrews and then into the early 

 Christian Church, by whose theologians it was developed through 

 the middle ages and maintained during the modern period. 



But, while this idea was thus developed by a succession of 

 noble and thoughtful men through thousands of years, another 

 conception to all appearance equally ancient was developed, 

 sometimes in antagonism to it, sometimes mingled with it : the 

 conception of all living beings as wholly or in part the result of 

 a growth process of an evolution. 



This idea, in various forms, became a powerful factor in near- 

 ly all the greater ancient theologies and philosophies. For very 



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