THE 



WESTERN REYIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



Science, Mechanic Arts and Agriculture. 

 VOL 1. DECEMBER, 1877. NO. 10. 



EVOLUTION. 



SOME OF THE OBJECTIONS TO THE EVOLUTION THEORY. 

 BY THEO, S. CASE, KANSAS CITY, MO. 



For some time before I was appointed to read a paper at this meeting of 

 the Academy I had been determining to my own mind that I ought to look 

 up the facts in opposition to the theories of Darwin, Haeckel and Huxley, 

 for fear of being overwhelmed and forced along with the current by the 

 mere ponderosity of the mass of argument, inference and induction poured 

 upon me from every side in the scientific journals with which I exchange 

 my little Monthly, and which of late have formed the principal part of my 

 reading; and your action in so appointing me has merely hastened my action 

 in the matter. My natural inclination from early teaching and training is' 

 to discredit the whole theory of Evolution and Natural Selection and to pin 

 my faith to the doctrine of a "supreme conscious and creative power" which 

 "was from the beginning and ever shall be," and to whose wisdom and 

 omnipotence are due the earth and all things within it, but I believe that I 

 am sufficiently free from prejudice to consider the subject fairly and can- 

 didly, and also sufficiently interested in science to appreciate and admire 

 the honest and faithful labors of all true scientists. With this bias and 



