A Story Outline of Evolution 



flint upon the smooth surfaces of the rock walls. Others 

 are found carved on bone and Ivory. These germ Ideas of 

 reproducing the mental pictures began to develop. The color 

 idea developed first and finally the art of painting came Into 

 being. The coloring matter which Nature had collected was 

 assembled and used to reproduce the mental pictures in an 

 enduring form. Perhaps the most perfect, the oldest and 

 the most Interesting specimen of prehistoric art Is found on 

 a cavern wall near Santander In Spain. It is a painting of 

 an extinct species of a bison bull in the act of charging and 

 it Is painted in three colors representing a partial shedding 

 of the long, black hair of winter leaving the shorter, red 

 hair of the springtime. From these beginnings, the arts of 

 sculpture and painting have climbed the evolutionary steps 

 to their present state of development. 



There has been development, progress and growth In 

 everything that Is made and used by mankind. The devel- 

 opment of a useful Idea has called Into being great industries 

 and they In turn have been torn down and cast Into the dis- 

 card by the development of some other more useful Idea. 

 A generation ago the manufacture of buggies gave gainful 

 employment to many thousands of persons. The automo- 

 bile has been substituted for the buggy, these plants have 

 been changed and the workers directed into other activities. 

 The radio is supplanting the piano; fuel oil and natural gas 

 is fast taking the place of coal; the motor buses, private 

 automobiles and the airplanes are furnishing means of trans- 

 portation that the street cars and railroads once supplied. 

 These changing conditions of society have led to speciallza- 



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