A Story Outline of Evolution 



Thus far we are still in the "Old Stone Age" of man's 

 existence. It started with the crudest chippings. The first 

 purpose of the men of this age was to secure food and to 

 protect themselves against their enemies. The manufacture 

 of their tools and weapons show a gradual development in 

 skill and workmanship. Someone developed the idea of 

 shaping a flake of flint into a pointed spear head which could 

 be fastened into the end of a shaft and with which a more 

 telling blow could be struck and at a farther and safer dis- 

 tance. This beneficial idea was seized upon and copied by 

 all the primitive tribes throughout the world. Then another, 

 even more original and thoughtful, invented the bow and 

 arrow. This simple invention which has been mentioned in 

 an earlier chapter of this "Outline" has been one of the 

 greatest if not the greatest factor in giving to man dominion 

 and mastery over all the beasts of the world. 



During this period of man's history, another group of 

 this race began to satisfy their artistic obscessions by carving 

 images upon bone, horn, tusk and stone. Another group 

 began to make bracelets, necklaces and pendants from teeth 

 and shells as ornaments for their bodies. Their barbaric 

 crowns were studded with the teeth and horns of the victims 

 of their chase. Like the atrophied toe nails of the horse, 

 these barbaric displays of vanity still cling to us, their descend- 

 ants. Cultural Evolution will in time cast them off as it has 

 so recently cast off the song birds as ornaments to the head- 

 dress of our sisters. 



During the vast period of time covered by the "Old 

 Stone Age" and the "New Stone Age," when Primitive Man 

 fought his way to mastery with weapons of flint, many races, 



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