THE BIBLE OF THE FUTURE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2123, 29 May 1875, Page 3

THE BIBLE OF THE FUTURE.

[pail mall gazette.] A Cincinnatti paper gives the following gpecimen of what ia to be the Bible of the Future. It is to be hoped that the whole work vrill be finished and ready for publication by about the same time when the two Revising Committees in England will have completed their task : — GENESIS : CHAPTER 11. 1. Primarily the Unknowable moved upon cosmos and evolved protoplasm. 2. And protoplasm was inorganic and tmdifferentiated, containing all things iv potential energy ; and a spirit of evolution moved upon the fluid mass. 8. And the Unknowable said, Let atoms attract ; and their contact begat light, heat, and electricity. 4. And the Unconditioned differentiated the atoms, each after its kind ; and their combinations begat rock, air, and water.

5. And there went out a spirit of evolution from the unconditioned, and working in protoplasm, by accretion and abaorpttoni produced the organic, cell*

6. And cell by nutrition evolved primordial germ, and germ developed protogene, and prot.^eue begat eozoon, and eozoon begat monad, and monad begat animalcule. 7. And animalcule begat ephemera ; then began creeping things to multiply on the face of the earth. 8. And earthy atom in vegetable protoplasm begat the molecule, and thence came all grass and every herb in the earth. 9. And animalcule in the water evolved fins, tails, claws, and scales ; and in the air wings and beaks ; and on the land they sprouted such organs as were neccessary as played upon by the environment. 10. And by accretion and absorption came the radiata and mollusca ; and mollusca begat articulata, and articulata begat vertebrata. 11. Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluled the bipedal mammalia. 12. And every man of the earth, while he was yet a monkey, and the horse while he was a hipparion, and the hipparion before he was an oredon. 13. Out of the ascidian came the amphibian, and begat the pentadactyle ; and the pentadactyle, by inheritance and selection, produced the hyiobate, from which are the simiadae in all their tribes. 14. And out of the simiadae the lemur prevailed above his fellows, and produced the platyrhine monkey. 15. And the platyrhine begat the catarrhine, and the catarrhine monkey begat the anthropoid ape, and the ape begat the longimanous orang, and the orang begat the chimpanzee, and tlw 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 period were born unto them and their children the anthropomorphic primordial types. 18. The homunculus, the prognathus, the troglodyte, the autochmon, the terragem — these are the generations of pri- J meval man. 19. And primeval man was naked and not ashamed, but lived in quadrumanous innocence, and struggled mightly to harmonise the environment. 20. And by inheritance and natural selections did he progress from the stable and homogeneous to the complex and heterogeneous — for the weakest died and the strongest grew and multiplied. 21. And man grew a thumb for that he bad need of it, and developed capacities for prey. 22. For, behold, the swiftest men caught the most animals, and the swiftest animals got away from the most men ; wherefore the slow animals were eaten and the slow men 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, whereby they killed off the weak and foolish and secured the survival of the fittest.