A Story Outline of Evolution 



and must prevail." Upon the premise that "truth Is truth 

 and must prevail," the story of Organic Evolution Is Indeli- 

 bly written. 



Almost every race and tribe of primitive people had a 

 legend accounting for the origin of the world and of Its 

 Inhabitants. With the more primitive tribes, these legends 

 were handed down from generation to generation by word 

 of mouth and were added to and changed until they became 

 unreasonable myths. Their minds were childlike and they 

 were as easily persuaded as are children. They were over 

 credulous and ready to believe almost any unreasonable 

 story. The belief In a Santa Claus Is as real In the minds of 

 children of today as If this mythical person really existed. 

 Even the educated grown-up people of today still cling to 

 vestiges of superstitious beliefs as Is evidenced by Halloween 

 and New Year's demonstrations. As an evidence of these 

 stories, we have the mythology of the Greeks and the leg- 

 ends of the American Indians as well as the mythology and 

 legends of many other primitive people. The oldest of these 

 recorded legends are, naturally, found among the people 

 first using a written language. The ancient Hebrews had a 

 collection of documents which gave an account of the origin 

 of the world and all things therein. Some of these docu- 

 ments have been collected Into a book known as the Old 

 Testament Bible. It Is In Genesis, the first book of the Old 

 Testament, that the Hebrew account of the origin of the 

 world and its inhabitants is recorded. It begins with the 

 statement: "In the beginning God created the heaven and 

 the earth." It is understood to teach that the world and all 



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