A Story Outline of Evolution 



ivory and rubber hunters from the jungles have learned that 

 they have products that can be exchanged for some useful 

 article manufactured by those living on the other side of the 

 earth. The trapper living within the Arctic Circle may 

 exchange his pelts for sugar and coffee from the equatorial 

 regions. Transportation at one end may be accomplished 

 in snow shoes and the dog sled and at the other by carrying 

 on head or back or in a dugout canoe, the hazards being 

 equally divided, but rail transportation and steam naviga- 

 tion join these extremes into a common artery or trade chan- 

 nel. This is a development of the idea of barter and trade 

 that was begun within the tribes of primitive man, and then 

 extended to other tribes and continued until all the world is 

 joined together as one great tribe of traders. 



The idea of aerial navigation was a dream of thinking 

 people from the days of the Psalmist to the time of its 

 accomplishment. In the early days people were overawed 

 by their superstitious beliefs. The superstitious people could 

 conceive of more impossibles than a modern fiction writer. 

 The belief in witches and ghosts that could ride upon the 

 wings of the wind was a common belief among the ignorant 

 classes two or three centuries ago. Incredible stories were 

 told, believed and magnified as they were again retold. 

 Even the more highly educated classes were not free from 

 many superstitious beliefs. The mythological stories of all 

 the ancient people doubtless had their inceptions in dreams 

 brought about by overgorged stomachs and which left such 

 impressions on the ignorant minds that they ascribed reality 

 to them. 



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