A Story Outline of Evolution 



All men of all ages and of all races have had a language 

 through which they could communicate their thoughts to 

 those about them. All available evidence points to the fact 

 that the growth of language was a slow and gradual process 

 in its development and, that at first, primitive man expressed 

 a thought by a single word, just as a year old baby begins 

 to express its observations and desires by a single word. 

 Just how the first spoken words were coined or what mental 

 reaction caused one object to be associated with certain 

 sounds of the human voice and another object associated 

 with some other sound, we do not know. It is likely that 

 he attempted to imitate with words many of the sounds of 

 Nature that he heard. 



It is an easy matter to trace the origin of the newer 

 words of our language because they were called Into being 

 to express ideas. It is also an easy matter to trace to the 

 parent languages the origin of most of the words In com- 

 mon use that have been borrowed from other languages 

 because they also were called into being to express the ideas 

 of the objects and actions which they represent. A few 

 examples may properly be cited Illustrating this statement, 

 as follows : Evolution Is a word of Latin origin. The pre- 

 fix "e" In Latin means "out" and "volvo" means "to roll" 

 or "to unfold." Then Evolution simply means "to roll out" 

 or "to unfold." The English word "book" is probably 

 derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "hoc," meaning a 

 "beach," a species of tree with a smooth white bark about 

 a quarter of an Inch In thickness. Tablets made from the 

 bark of the beech tree were one of the substances on which 

 written characters were inscribed by some of the ancient 



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