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WARD’S NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN. 
The New Scriptures accordmg to Tyndall,, 
Huxley, Spencer and Darwin. 
GENESIS, CHAP. I. 
1. Primarily the Unknowable moved upon 
cosmos and evolved protoplasm. 
2. And protoplasm was inorganic and undif- 
ferentiated, containing all things in potential 
energy; and a spirit of evolution moved upon 
the fluid mass. 
3. And the Unknowable said, “Let atoms 
attract,” and they did so, and their contact begat 
light, heat, and electricity. 
4. And the unconditioned differentiated the 
atoms, each after its kind, and their combination 
begat rock, air, and water. 
5. And there went out a spirit of evolution 
from the unconditioned, and working in proto- 
plasm, by accretion and absorption, produced the 
organic cell. 
6. And cell by nutrition evolved primordial 
germ, and germ developed protogene, and proto- 
gene begat eozoon, and eozoon begat monad, and 
monad begat animalcule. 
7. And animalcule begat ephemerae; then be- 
gan creeping things to multiply on the face of 
the earth. 
8. And earthly atom in vegetable protoplasm 
begat the molecule, and thence came all grasses 
and herbs on the earth. 
9. And animalculae in the water evolved fins, 
tails, claws, and scales; and in the air, wings and 
beaks; and on the dry land they sprouted such 
organs as were necessary, being acted upon by 
the environment. 
10. And by accretion and absorption came the 
radiata and mollusca, and mollusca begat articu- 
lata, and articulata begat vertebrata. 
11. Now these are the generations of the high- 
est vertebrata in the cosmic period, when the Un- 
knowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia. 
12. And every man on the earth while he was 
yet a monkey, and the horse while he was yet an 
hipparion, and the hipparion before he was an 
oreodon. 
13. Out of the ascidian came the amphibian 
and begat the pentadactyle, and the pentadactyle, 
by inheritance and selection, produced the bilo- 
bate, from which are the simiadas in all their 
tribes, 
14. And of the simiadse the lemur prevailed 
above his fellows and produced the platyrhine 
monkey. 
15. And the platyrhine begat the catarrhine, 
and the catarrhine monkey begat tbe anthropoid 
ape, and the ape begat the longimanous orang. 
and the orang begat the chimpanzee, and the 
chimpanzee evoluted the what-is-it. 
16. And the what-is-it went into the land of 
Nod and took him a wife of the longimanous 
gibbons. 
17. And in process of the cosmic were born 
unto them and their children the anthropomor- 
phic primordial types. 
18. The homunculus, the prognathus, the trog- 
lodyte, the antochton, and the terragen; these 
are the generations of primeval man. 
19. And primeval man was naked, and not 
ashamed, and lived in quadrumanous innocence, 
and struggled mightily to harmonize with the en 
vironment. 
20. And in process of time, by inheritance and 
natural selection, did he progress from the simple 
and homogeneous to the complex and heteroge- 
eous, and the weakest died and the strongest grew 
and multiplied. 
21. And man grew a thumb, for that he had 
need of it, and devoloped capacity for prey. 
22. For, behold, the swiftest men caught the 
most animals, and the swiftest animals got away 
from the slowest men; wherefore it came to pass 
that the slow animals were eaten, and the slow 
men were starved to death. 
23. And as types were differentiated the 
weaker types continually disappeared. 
24. And the earth was filled with violence, for 
man strove with man, and tribe with tribe, where- 
by they killed off the weak and foolish and 
secured the survival of the fittest. — Weekly 
Review. 
Man Against Wild Beasts. 
In spite of the zealous sportsmen, government 
rewards, poisons, pitfalls, firearms, and all en- 
gines of destruction, with which man has made 
war against teeth, claws and poisonous fangs, the 
people of India are still having a hard time of it. 
In America if a man loses his life by a wild 
animal, forty million people are informed of the 
fact with all its details in less than a fortnight. 
The following figures will show how little we 
realize from day to day what is transpiring in 
other parts of the world : — 
In the year 1878, the official records show that 
in India 816 persons were killed by tigers, 33 by 
elephants, 300 by leopards, 94 by bears, 845 by 
wolves, 33 by hyaenas, 16,812 by snakes and 1,323 
by other animals, making a total of 20,256 lives 
lost by wild beasts and serpents. To balance 
this heavy account we find that in the same year 
there were killed in the same country, 1 “ rogue” 
elephant, 1,493 tigers, 3,237 leopards, 1,283 bears, 
5,067 wolves, 1,202 hyaenas, 117,958 venomous 
snakes, and 10,204 other animals, making in all 
a grand total of 140,445 mankillers destroyed. 
Numerically the odds are in favor of poor hu- 
manity, but it is distressing to note that deaths 
from wild animals are actually on the increase. 
In 1876 the number of deaths from wild beasts 
and snakes was 19,273, and in 1880 the total 
lacked only ten of 22,000. Strange to say, how 
ever, the number of dangerous beasts killed has 
decreased during the same period, for in 1876 the 
returns show the slaughter of 23,469, but in 1880, 
the year of the greatest mortality, only 14,886 
mankillers were accounted for. 
It is clear from the above showing, that in 
India dangerous animals are on the increase, in 
spite of the fact that in nearly every Province 
government rewards are paid for their destruc- 
tion. This state of things is due to two causes, 
viz : tbe prejudice of the Hindoo castes against 
taking life, and the “arms act” which prevents a 
native owning fire arms without a special license, 
which, in most districts, it is almost impossible 
for him to obtain. 
Until the natives are allowed to properly arm 
themselves against the denizens of the jungle 
and are also supplied with poison and are taught 
to use it, we may expect the annual slaughter 
of human beings to continue. When Stanley, 
in defense of himself and his band of heroic 
followers, opened fire on the bloodthirsty 
Africans, and sent a number of them to 
meet their just deserts we remember that the 
Society for the Protection of the Aborigines, 
backed by the London press generally, raised a 
great cry of horror and called the attention of 
Lord Derby to the matter on the instant. 
Stanley was vilified shamefully for not allow- 
ing his expedition to be annihilated, but 
the Society which shrieked loudest over the 
loss of a score of dangerous wretches in Central 
Africa, pays not the slightest heed to the 
fact that in India upwards of twenty thousand 
human beings are killed annually by wild beasts and 
snakes. I wonder if it has never occured to the 
missionaries there that it would be a desirable 
thing to save bodies as well as souls? To the 
casual observer it would seem that in this direc- 
tion they have a field for labor which is in terrible 
need of the attention of some one. W. T. II. 
Palmam Ferat qui Meruit. 
We are in receipt of a printed circular of a 
page extent issued by a Professor in a Western 
college, who is also a dealer in specimens of all 
kinds. Under the heading of “ What those who 
know say about the uses of natural history col- 
lections,” he gives a series of quotations, or 
extracts, from leading scientists, such as the late 
Prof. Henry, Prof. Louis Agassiz, and President 
Hitchcock, Prof. Winchell, Prof. Orton, Prof. 
Newberry, and others, to the number of ten. The 
point of interest in the matter to us is that of 
these ten quotations, eight are taken verbatim 
from longer letters of these eminent naturalists 
to Prof. Ward, and since printed, expressing 
their commendation and admiration of his work. 
Why then not give us credit for them? This is 
not right, Brother T. 
THE BRITISH ASS. 
ROARED IN A DEN OF SCIENTIFIC LIONS. 
[The British Association, (British Ass.) met last 
year in the old cathedral city of York. Its pro- 
ceedings received the usual share of serious at- 
tention from the many, and a wholesome amount 
of ridicule from the satirical and fun-loving. As 
a lively specimen of the latter we reproduce some 
verses which we have not before seen in print in 
this country.] 
Some men go in for science, 
And some go in for shams, 
Some roar like hungry lions, 
And others bleat like lambs. 
But there’s a beast that at this feast, 
Deserves a double glass 
So let us bray that long we may 
Admire the British Ass. 
On England’s fragrant clover, 
This beast delights to browse, 
But sometimes he’s a rover 
To Scotland’s browny knowes. 
For there the plant supplies his want, 
That doth all herbs surpass: 
The thistle rude the sweetest food 
That feeds the British Ass! 
We’ve read in ancient story, 
How a great Chaldean swell 
Came down from all his glory 
With horrid beasts to dwell. 
If you would know how it happened so, 
That a king should feed on grass, 
In “Section D. Department B,” 
Inquire of the British Ass! 
To Grecian sages charming, 
Rang the music of the spheres, 
But voices more alarming 
Salute our longer ears. 
By science bold we now are told, 
How life did come to pass,— 
From world to world the seeds were hurled, 
Whence sprung the British Ass! 
In our waltzing through creation, 
We meet those fiery stones, 
That bring for propagation 
The germs of flesh and bones. 
And is it not a thrilling thought. 
That some misguided mass, 
May some fine day come and sweep away 
Our dear old British Ass. 
The child who knows his father. 
Has aye been reckoned wise, 
But some of us would rather 
Be spared that sweet surprise. 
If it be true that when we view 
A comely lad or lass, 
We find the trace of the monkey’s face 
In the gaze of the British Ass. 
The ancients, childish creatures, 
Thought we men derived from heaven, 
The God-like form and features, 
To mankind solely given: 
But now we see our pedigree, 
Made plain as in a glass, 
And when we grin we betray our kin 
To the sires of the British Ass. 
The Darwinian Creed. 
Those who themselves explicitly reject the 
Darwinian creed yet cannot possibly escape from 
many of its implications. It runs through al- 
most all the best thought of our time ; it tinges 
our unformed public notions ; it re-appears un- 
der a hundred disguises in works on law and his- 
tory, in political speeches and religious discour- 
ses] in theories and vague social speculations. 
Our very novels and poems are full of latent 
Darwinian germs. If we try to think ourselves 
away from it, we must think ourselves away en- 
tirely from our own age. Whoever builds at all 
must build largely from materials supplied by 
Darwin or by Darwinians. Whoever deals with 
social forces must deal with forces greatly mould- 
ed and remodeled by Darwinian ideas. The 
physician who wholly neglected Darwinian re- 
sults would fall behind in the race — would, in 
fact, be naturally selected for quiet extinction ; 
the statesman who wholly overlooked the politi- 
cal and ethical implications of the Darwinian 
belief, the strength of the new intellectual factors 
introduced by Darwinism, would be incapable of 
really guiding the political thought of to-day. — 
Pall Mall Gazette. 
Some strangers were being taken through the 
Establishment by an attendant who was not 
quite so familiar with all branches of Natural 
History as he wished to appear; and so when one 
of the party asked him how the flexibility of 
Itacolumite was accounted for, he said it was 
because it had “not properly congealed /” 
