A Story Outline of Evolution 



We go next to the library and find hundreds of books 

 stored away in cases. They are bound in paper, leather and 

 cloth. The bindings are artistic and beautiful but the con- 

 tent of these books contains a record of the achievements 

 and doings of man dating back thousands of years before 

 written history began. The combined, constructive thoughts 

 of all men of all ages are recorded in these books. They are 

 recorded in a written or printed language. This language 

 is made up of sentences each expressing a thought. The 

 sentences are made up of words and the words are made up 

 of characters. Each character represents an idea and these 

 characters have each passed through many changes in their 

 development. They are the changed forms of the hiero- 

 glyphics of the Egyptians and the cuneiform characters of 

 the Babylonians. They have been combined and changed 

 by the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans and worked into 

 their present form by the more recent generations of men 

 from whom we have descended. They record events reach- 

 ing back to the horizon of written history. Through the 

 imperishable tools and implements that primitive man has 

 left as fossil evidence of his doings, we learn many things 

 about early man dating back to the time when he invented 

 the first bow and arrow and chipped the first flake of flint. 

 Every known living thing is here given a name and is classi- 

 fied. All the changes wrought in the forms of Nature are 

 here recorded. 



Cultural Evolution proves itself beyond any honest, 

 reasonable doubt. Searchers are daily adding cumulative 

 facts to this storehouse of knowledge. New secrets of 



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