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Show ! GOSPEL OF THE 95 FATHER THE 96 GOD WE W OR S HIP I I by one, when they were crowned Kings and Priests of 1 God. I merely bring this up to impress upon your mind: the principles of order, but it will nevertheless apply to every member of the Church."JD 9:41 scientific circle s of France and Eng land, ha s lately been published by M. Pouchet, a French naturalist, : 1 2, Oct. objections had been raised by their opponents I i against their hypotheses and experiments on the supposition of the presence of ova or seed-germs, M. Pouchet proposes to produce insects in infusions under circumstances which would preclude the possi- but I The origin of the human race is a subj ect that has of i late been warmly duscussed by the leading e thno loq i st s With what results remains ! Ethnology, or the science of races, is in itself useful and interesting branch of study, I bility of the presence of any organiC germ, such as I employing artificial water, artificial air, or even pure oxygen, passing the air through concentrated sulphuric acid, and subjecting the infusion (of hay) to a high I he to this means By boiling temperature. proposes ! destroy any germ that might possibly be supposed to a by it we learn to trace with greater certitude the physical re lationship which the various peoples of the earth bear I as i I to each other. Various opinions tinct races maintained are of humankind there are as to how many diS-I again for as many as eleven. At the meetings of the British As sociation for the Advancement of Science, held last year at Oxford, and. this year at Manchester, spirited discus sions took place upon the Antiquity of the Human Race and the Origin of the prominent zoologists avowing considerable modifications of their opinions upon the of Species, some doctrine being that the different species of life-forms, instead of being independently created, have gradually descended as modifications latter topic--the new and varieties from each other. In order to give peculiar views our readers now ranks of naturalists, a better general idea of gaining ground in the foremost we will cite exist therein; and under these extreme circumstances in the world--some I upholding the doctrine of unity of origin with orthodox zeal, some contending with equal tenacity for three distinct primordial races, others for five, and others the as . to be seen. a few instances for illustration. An elaborate work, which is somewhat agitating the I ins:ct George Q. Cannon, President of the British Mission. and zoologists of the day. I purporting to establish the pr inc ipl e of "spontaneous generation." Crosse had professed to produce by electricity; Fray, to develop sl ug s by fer me nt at i on.] and Needham, to form animalculae by infusorial rne an s; 186 1 "ORIGIN OF MAN" i he ! professes to be able by a simple natural process t generate organic life from inorganic matter. . I I Then, again, there is the remarkable anonymous vo l-l which has stert+ ume, entitled "Vestiges of Creation, led all classes of natural phi Io eopher s from their II pro-I ! priety, and has lately run through nearly a score of In this book the editions in double quick time. gressive development" theory is proclaimed and advo-;I cated in all its bearings, --the hypothesis being that IIpro-1 I original simple forms of life the higher and more complex have been eliminated by degrees, one above another, without any special creative feat,: until, at length the ape was produced, from which the l owe s t type of man was ultimately developed, in a wild or savage state; that thus all the changes have been i brought about which characterize both vegetable and animal life, the elements of which all are composed being the same, the difference consi sting merely in the modes of their arrangement and transition, --gal vanic action being the chief agent in effecting the from the I |
