Publk ' -dry, 



THE 



POPULAE SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



APRIL, 1894, 



NEW CHAPTERS IN THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE. 

 XIX. FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION. 

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



EX-PRESIDENT OF CORNELL UM1VKKSITY. 



PART II. 

 THEOLOGICAL TEACHINGS REGARDING THE ANIMALS AND MAN. 



IN one of the windows of the cathedral at Ulna a mediaeval 

 glass-stainer has represented the Almighty as engaged in 

 creating the animals, and there has just left the divine hands an 

 elephant fully accoutered, with armor, harness, and housings 

 ready for war. Similar representations appear in illuminated 

 manuscripts and even in early printed books, and, as the culmina- 

 tion of the whole, the Almighty is shown as extracting, with evi- 

 dent effort, the first woman from the side of the first man. 



This view of the general process of creation had come from 

 far ; it appeared under varying forms in various ancient cosmogo- 

 nies, and, passing into our own sacred books, became the starting 

 point of a vast new development of theology. 



The fathers of the Church generally received each of the two 

 accounts of creation in Genesis literally, and then,- having done 

 their best to reconcile them with each other and to mold them 

 together, made them the final test of thought upon the universe 

 and all things therein. At the beginning of the fourth century 

 Lactantius struck the keynote of this mode of subordinating all 

 other things in the study of creation to the literal text of Scrip- 

 ture, and he enforces his view of the creation of man by a bit of 

 philology, saying the final being created " is called man because 

 he is made from the ground homo ex humo." 



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