A Story Outline of Evolution 



been gathered from many places. It is the greatest of all 

 modern miracles and it has made the world one big neigh- 

 borhood. It carries both music and messages to millions of 

 people each hour. You may tune in or turn off just as you 

 choose to do. 



The vibrations of the ether waves have carried every 

 sound made by man, beast, bird or the elements since the 

 world began. Each generation has developed and applied 

 new thoughts and as our experience in living has lengthened 

 it has remained for the present generation to develop the 

 radio. 



On a table is another instrument. It is a telephone, an 

 Instrument of communication. It also is made of many 

 parts and many different materials that have been produced 

 and gathered from many places. It is, or may be, connected 

 instantly with millions of other telephones throughout this 

 and foreign countries. It carries the human voice around 

 the world, unchanged, with the accent and individual 

 sounds peculiar to the person speaking. It shortens time 

 and eliminates space but It Is not the result of one mind or 

 of one age. It is the result of a desire of man to communi- 

 cate instantly his thought beyond the natural range of the 

 human voice. It is the evoluted idea of the primitive sys- 

 tem of signalling wherein human thought was first conveyed 

 beyond the range of the voice by means of drums or the 

 brush fires on the hilltops. Like Organic Evolution it still 

 retains vestiges of the earlier forms through which and 

 from which it has developed. 



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