A Story Outline of Evolution 



thereto, It embraces love, affection, recognition and care of 

 offspring. When the lower orders produced and still pro- 

 duce offspring by the thousands and millions, there is no 

 time, opportunity or object for mother-love; but when the 

 offspring is reduced to one or a few, mother-love, with all 

 that the term implies is a physical necessity for the perpetua- 

 tion of the species. 



Before the coming of the mammals, there were no 

 inherited traditions of the past experiences of ancestral life; 

 there were only life memories and the use of evolutionary 

 adaptations. But when the complete body was formed 

 within the body of the animal and when the new born off- 

 spring took its first nourishment from the parent body, then 

 the female parent became a mother. From the mother's 

 milk each new born creature in the mammal class sucks in 

 all the memories, the instincts, the traditions and experience 

 of the species of which it is a part. In no other way can the 

 inherited tendencies of ancestral experiences be reasonably 

 explained. 



Mother-love is the most potent force in the world. It is 

 the foundation upon which all animal experiences and reason 

 are built. It is the force that developed the family life, the 

 herd instinct for mutual protection and brought altruism 

 into being. It is the basis of all social orders from the low- 

 est mammal forms to that of man. With the coming of 

 mother-love, the forces that have led to a higher life were 

 set in rapid motion and these forces have developed brains 

 as an agency for their operation. The evolving forces of 

 Nature through millions of cooperating conditions may now 

 be traced with increasing interest for the reason that all 



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