A Story Outline of Evolution 



printed. The reader thereof today, In the light of the great 

 development In communication, Is amused. The subject of 

 this notorious "swindle" Is today almost a household neces- 

 sity. We may now talk from the very location where the 

 above statements were written to all the leading countries 

 of the world and also to the great ships at sea. With the 

 18,000,000 telephones In this country, with the 12,000,000 

 radios and the beginnings of television, it is probable that 

 the generations which will follow us seventy years hence will 

 be amused at the crude ways we are doing things now. 



Following the invention of the automobile, some cities 

 passed ordinances forbidding the use of automobiles on the 

 streets because they frightened the horses. The inventor 

 of one of the best known makes of automobile, whose name 

 is a household word, told the "City Dads" in his city that 

 the day would come when automobiles would drive all the 

 horses from the streets In all the cities. This prophecy was 

 made only thirty-two years ago and how true it was can best 

 be proved by driving an automobile through the congested 

 districts of any of our large cities today. 



Hundreds of such examples might be mentioned show- 

 ing the force of traditional beliefs. There have been innu- 

 merable traditional beliefs forsaken as our knowledge of 

 things has increased and as our civilization has advanced. 

 It must be remembered that it matters not how many beliefs 

 there may be or how universal they are, belief alone cannot 

 establish a scientific fact. Unless beliefs are founded on 

 Truth, they cannot permanently endure. They must adapt 

 themselves to the changing order as Truth unfolds. 



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