Mating in Marriage (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... The present article is but a synopsis of that work, but it shall be quite enough to give a clue to the entire philosophy of the construction of animal orders and human races. A creature is but a plant given a greater development. A person is but a creature given greater development. A vegetable kingdom is converted into an animal kingdom, and an animal kingdom is converted into a human kingdom. All that is necessary for the giver of these propositions to do in order to satisfy a people that they are correct is to give the necessary explanation of the modus operatidi of the conversion of one order into another, and then disclose the evidence that the process was actually performed by showing the correspondence of the copy with the original, and pointing out the continuing parts of the original in the copy, and the degree of the change that took place. This work is perfectly within the power of a person to perform and it shall be done in this chapter, so far as to disclose the operation and perform the comparison of a few of such classes of creatures with their origin, and to point to the continuing parts of the original in the copy. The work shall not be deficient except in a want of a comparison of all the animals with the plants of their origin, and a comparison of the human races with the creatures that furnished their origin. A balance of the comparisons of such orders with their origin will be all that will be lacking of a complete disclosure of the whole of the great wonder of the origin of animals and of man. It will not contain a fact that is consistent with the so-called Darwin theory, or a proposition that supports it. All there is in the work of the famous author of the socalled evolution theory that is not to be denied in what this work will co...