A Story Outline of Evolution 



But the tire is not pure rubber — it contains other materials 

 such as carbon, cotton, etc. The carbon is made mostly from 

 the carbon particles that have been burned out of natural 

 gas. Thus carbon represents another industry that has 

 changed it from the forms in which it is found in Nature. 

 The cotton fabric is produced from the fiber of a plant which 

 is cultivated, gathered, ginned and woven into the forms 

 necessary to make it useful. These changes all represent 

 various steps of evolutionary growth. 



The tire is fastened to a steel rim which represents 

 another industry that has been 3,000 years in the making. 

 The rims and spokes are made of wood which again repre- 

 sents one of the oldest industries known to man. The seats 

 are covered with leather or with cloth, it matters not which, 

 because the leather represents the first artificial clothing 

 used by primitive man who developed the art of tanning 

 before written history began, while the cloth represents 

 another early art, that of weaving, which again is older than 

 written history. The metal trimmings represent various 

 phases of the metal industry, the paint another industry that 

 has grown and developed since primitive man painted 

 images of the now extinct bison on the cavern walls of Spain 

 more than 50,000 years ago. The glass in the windshield, 

 doors and windows represent another branch of art that has 

 developed through the ages. 



Again, we find that the automobile carries a miniature 

 electric light and power plant that enables travel by night, 

 furnishes power to start the motor, and constant spark for 

 the ignition system. This is the nerve system of the machine. 



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