Darwinism Not New We All Have Faults

A writer in the Jewiah Messenger showa that the hypothesis of Darwin with respeot to evolution and development, were asserted by a Jewish Babbi, Joeeph Albo, who lived at the beginning of the fiftoenth oentnry, in hia book "Ikkiriru." The writer quotes a curious passage, aa follows : ' In considering the forma of material beings, we fiud that they progresa step by step to completion ; that ia, the later forras are more excellent than the earlier, as if matter develops in assuming the forma from the incomplete to the complete. For at first they assume the lowest form, then a higher, and in such a manner they rise up step by step from the incomplete to the complete. At firat they assume the primitiva form and riae up to stones- and the primitivo forms are their inferior form- then they riso to the degree of living beings- and the planta are their inferior form -and then they rise to the degree of mankind- and tbere the living beings form tho inferior ones. - With these the creation ceased. And as with motion every former part of activity is a requisite for the following, so it seema to be the case with the material world, that the former is a requisite of the latter. And, aa with motion the arrival at tho point ttiined at, forms the cause of the partial movements, the beings rise from step to step, until they reach the nighest degree iu man ; and there they stop, as the end of the material beings. That matter moves from lower to higher, is proved hy the composition of bodies. The coral is a connecting link between inorganic beings and plants ; and the sea-sponges, possessing merely the sense of feeling, are the connecting link between the plants and animáis ; and the ape is tho connecting link between the different kinds of living. beings and mankind." Ho who boasts of' being perfect is perfect in his folly. I have been a good deal up and down in the world, and I never did see either a perfect horse or a perfect man, and I never shill untiltwo Sundays come together. You can nut get white flour out of a coal-sack, aor perfection out of human nature ; he who looka for it had better look for sugar in the sea. The old saying is, " Lifeless, faultless." Of dead men we should say nothing but good, but as for the living, they are all tarred more or less with the black brush, and half an eye can see it. Every head has a soft place in it, and every heart has its black drop. Every rose has its prickles, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. Nobody is so wise but he has folly enough to stock a stall at Vanity Fair. Where I could not see the fool's cap, I have nevertheless heard the bells jingle. As there is no sunshino without some shadows, so all human good is mixed up with more or l9ss of evil ; even poor-law guardians have their little failings, and parish beadles are not wholly of heavenly nature. The best wine has its lees. All men's faults are not written on their foreheads, and it 's quite as well they aro not, or hats would need wide briins ; yet as sure as eggs are eggs, faults of some kind nestle in every man's bosom. There's no telling when a man's faults may show themselves, for hares pop out of a ditch just when you are not looking for {hem. A horse that is weak in the knees may not stumble for a mile or two, but it is in him, and the rider had better hold him up well. The tabby cat is not lapping milk just now, but leave the dairy door open, and we will see if she is not as bad a thief as the kitten. - There's fire in the flint, cool as it looks : wait till tho steel gets a knook at it, and you will seo. Everybody can read that riddle, but it is not everybody that will remember to keep his gunpowder out of the way of the candle. -