Created or Happened or Evolved.
•' Its lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they were made, or only just happened. Jim, he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened ; I judged it would have took too long to make so many, Jim said the moon could ( a laid them ; well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most an many, so of eouffle it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them struck down. Jim allowed they'd got spoiled, and was hove oat of the nest." In this charming piece of fooling Mark Twain states the problom admirably. The question is whether things were made or '*' only just happened." But Jim I eing a philosopher, suggested evolution •■• compromise and Huck Finn's d*£km was not intelligent enough or vigor* cm* »nou(b tp r«a(it if,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 October 1890, Page 2
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179Created or Happened or Evolved. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 October 1890, Page 2
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