January, 1928 



EVOLUTION 



Page Thirteen 



CREATION, A HISTORY OF NON- 

 EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES. By 

 Edwin Tenney Brewster. Bobbs-Mer- 

 rill Co.: $3.50. 



This is a scholarly book in the best 

 sense. It is careful of its facts and 

 presents them without prejudice. But if 

 by "scholarly" you mean dry and difficult, 

 it is anything but that. 



It purports to deal with non-evolutionary 

 theories only, and precisely because it 

 does so, it fills a gap in our literature of 

 evolution. It gives the background for 

 the evolution of evolution. Heretofore 

 the histories have stuck much too closely 

 to the subject. They have told of the 

 pioneers of evolution from the Greeks to 

 Darwin, but never so clearly of the forc- 

 ing of the mind to accept evolution over 

 other theories because the facts decreed. 

 As you read this book and note the suc- 

 cessive yieldings of inadequate theories 

 to inexorable facts, you realize how very 

 significant the evolution theory is, how 

 well it explains, how completely the evi- 

 dence supports it and why the scientific 

 world so unreservedly accepts and uses it. 

 The book is most convincing. 



It supplies ammunition. It enumerates 

 those difficult facts which the anti-evo- 

 lutionist can never explain. It is literally 

 loaded with "posers." The militant evolu- 

 tionist will certainly delight in it. I am 

 afraid he will even laugh with joy as he 

 reads it. He will probably tuck it under 

 his gun arm and start right out stalking 

 Fundamentalists. A. S. B. 



THE OUTLINE OF MAN'S KNOWL- 

 EDGE. By Clement Wood. 728 

 Pages. Published by Lewis Copeland 

 Co.: $5.00. 



Clement Wood, fitted for his task 

 by many years of study, has presented 

 his story in "The Outline of Man's Knowl- 

 edge" with the painstaking accuracy of a 

 scientist and the imaginative vision of a 

 poet. In his hands, the vast accumulated 

 knowledge of five million years becomes 

 fascinating narrative. The reader is made 

 the master, not of segments of unrelated 

 knowledge but of knowledge as an evolv- 

 ing and related whole, and as he reads 

 he comes alive in the fullest sense to the 

 scheme of things. 



Earth began. Life arose, people devel- 

 oped. Over the vast scattered surface of 

 the globe different people rose to separate 

 and distinct achievements, went forward 

 to diverse destinies. The long reach from 

 tribal life and instruments of stone to the 

 complicated age of airplane and the hectic 

 ticker tape, rivals in interest one's fa- 

 vorite novel. The maps of Uonka Karasz 

 and the decorations by Louis Bromberg 

 decidedly increase the value of this guide 

 to education. 



History, Philosophy, Physics, Poetry, 

 Drama, Painting, Sculpture, Astronomy, 

 Biology, Psychology, Mathematics, Soci- 

 ology, Literature, Architecture, Religion, 

 Music — the important facts that have been 



learned since the beginning of history are 

 presented here in untechnical language that 

 not only everyone can understand, but can 

 enjoy. In perfecting the various sections. 

 Mr. Wood has had the advantage of sug- 

 gestions from, and cooperation with, the 

 best minds in each department. Professor 

 James Harvey Robinson, Meade Minnige- 

 rode, Gamaliel Bradford, John Sloan, Pro- 

 fessor John Dewey and Dr. Fagnani are 

 some of the names cited by Mr. Wood in 

 his acknowledgment. — Josephine Herbst. 



THE BEST BOOK ON EVOLUTION 



A number of readers have asked "What 

 is the best book on evolution for a friend 

 who is not a scientist?" 



To all such I recommend unhesitatingly 

 "Evolution for John Doe," by Henshaw 

 Ward. It is the most interesting and con- 

 vincing book of which I know. Its con- 

 tents include: 

 Part One: A Description of Evolution. 



1. What John Doe Thinks About Evolu- 



tion. 



2. The Myriad Forms of Life. 



3. The Tangled Web of Life. 



4. The Varied Modes of Life. 



5. The Jungle of Adaptations. 



6. The Struggle for Existence. 



7. Variation. 



8. Heredity. 



9. Natural Selection. 



Part Two: The Evidences of Evolution. 



10. What Evidences Are. 



11. Evidence from Rivalry of Scientists. 



12. Evidence from the Rocks. 



13. Evidence from Geographical Distribu- 



tion. 



14. Evidence from Classification. 



15- Evidence from Artificial Selection. 



16. Evidence from Structures of Animals. 



17. Evidence from Embryos. 



18. Evidence from Blood. 



Part Three: The History of Evolution. 



19. Lamarck. 



20. Darwin. 



21. Weismann. 

 22- Mendelism. 



23. DeVries's Mutations. 



24. How Evolution Stands Today. 



25. The Fosdick Idea. L. E. K. 



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A PRAYER 



O, would that evolution 

 Could change the convolution 



Of the Fundamentalist brain; 

 Create a sense of humor 

 To replace the deadly tumor — 



That causes him such pain. 



— Bob Lyle. 



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