A Story Outline of Evolution 



of less than one-eighth of a mile. There are single states 

 capable of supplying sufficient food for all of these If all the 

 land should be Intensely and Intelligently cultivated and If a 

 stalk of grain should be made to supplant every weed. 



Nature offers and gives a bounty to the Intellect of man as 

 a reward for aiding her constructive plan. Human thought 

 has changed the habits and customs of all the civilized races 

 of mankind. These changes are not constant, they are recur- 

 ring. The soil has been forsaken for the machine; but the 

 machine has become so efficient that a movement back to the 

 soil from whence the nourishment of all life comes, is inevita- 

 ble. We must learn again the lessons our ancestors learned 

 and apply them in a different way. 



Man has scientific mastery over many of the latent forces 

 of Nature but not all of them. The harnessing of these 

 forces is only in the beginning. Who knows but what the 

 heat of the summer's sun may yet be bottled up and stored 

 away for winter's use or the frigid air of winter preserved 

 so that climate may be tempered at the will of man? The 

 firebug and the glow worm may lead to a perpetual chemical 

 light that may transform the darkness of the night into an 

 artificial day. The force of the wind and the ocean waves 

 will, in time, be a servant to mankind and subject to his will. 

 Long distance travel will, doubtless, be conducted through 

 the stratosphere at a speed now undreamed of. Mental 

 telegraphy may become a fully developed science requiring 

 no mechanical aids In distant communication. Man may dis- 

 cover a process of extracting the moisture from the air and 

 be able to produce artificial rain thus insuring a continuous 

 succession of bountiful crops. He may determine whether 

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