A Story Outline of Evolution 



The Laws of Evolution may be aided and their processes 

 quickened and advanced by the cooperative efforts of man. 

 Many thousands of examples may be mentioned where this 

 has been done. Nearly all of our pot and garden flowers 

 with their fragrance and beauty have been developed by the 

 cooperative efforts of man from their wild state where they 

 were struggling with other species for existence. The same 

 is true of all our fruits, vegetables, cereals and domestic ani- 

 mals. Even the gold fish in your bowl or pool is a product 

 of three thousand years of experimental breeding starting 

 with a species of carp in eastern China. Who can imagine 

 what changes will take place in our flowers, fruits, nuts, vege- 

 tables, cereals, poultry and domestic animals after another 

 thousand years of cooperative effort of man and Nature? 

 Without human cooperation, many of these will become 

 extinct species because they have been so long under the 

 fostering care of human hands that they have lost their 

 power of adaptation while the remainder will revert again 

 to the wild state in which man first found them. A reversal 

 of the Laws of Evolution always leads to degeneration and 

 destruction of the species. 



From the first pulsating "life spark" to the present time, 

 there is an intervening period of something like a thousand 

 million years. This period is so short that there is no known 

 method of comparing it with eternity. The one is finite, the 

 other infinite. 



The greatest problem that faces civilization is the des- 

 tiny of the human race. Evolution has brought the human 

 race to its present conditions of existence and the processes 

 of Evolution will determine its destiny. Its highest achieve- 



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