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EVOLUTION 



January, 1923 



CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE 



THOU SHALT NOT 

 growled some old mossback in the trees, when 

 our most venturesome ancestor first tried to 

 stand on his hind legs and raise his gaze toward 

 the stars. 



Thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge 

 has been the command of fundamentalism down 

 all the ages. Thou Shalt Not — to Newton weigh- 

 ing worlds, — to Copernicus measuring universes. 

 Thou Shalt Not — to Galileo, — to Harvey, — to 

 Darwin deciphering the book of nature with in- 

 finite care. 



And Thou Shalt Not is the fundamentalist 

 command today to every earnest student, to every 

 courageous teacher of facts. Militant and ramp- 

 ant, fundamentalism wants to make this 



THE LAW OF THE LAND 



as it is already in Mississippi and Tennessee. 

 Had science in the past obeyed the funda 



JESSE LEE BENNETT: Editor The Modem 

 World; Author of "Frontiers of Knowledge" 



EDWIN TENNEY BREWSTER: Author of "Crea- 

 tion, a History of Non-evolutionary Theories." 



ALLAN STRONG BROMS: Formerly Science Lec- 

 turer of Twin Cities Workers University Society. 



GEORGE A. DORSEY: Author of "Why We Be- 

 have Like Human Beings" and "The Nature of 

 Man." 



ALEXANDER GOLDENWEISER: Editorial Staff, 

 "Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences." 



ROBERT HESTER: Associate editor of The Truth 

 Seeker. 



HARRY HIBSCHMAN: Lawyer, Lecturer and 

 Writer. 



ALBERT J. INGALLS: Associate editor of The 

 Scientific American. 



DAVID STARR JORDAN: President Emeritus Le- 

 Iand Stanford University. Author "The Higher 

 Foolishness." 



MAYNARD SHIPLEY: President, Science League 

 of America; Author of "War on Modern 

 Science." 



BERNARD J. STERN: Department of Sociology, 

 University of Washington. Author "Social Fac- 

 tors in Medical Progress." 



mentalist command, the pall of the Dark Ages 

 would still smother the world and modern civil- 

 ization woidd have remained a dream undreamt. 

 Neither shall we tamely submit to the menace 

 of fundamentalism today. 



Evolution has been established to take up 

 this challenge of superstition and bigotry and 

 boldly raise the slogan of science 



THOU SHALT 



eat of the tree of knowledge. Let our youth be 

 taught to face the facts, ALL the facts, that sci- 

 ence has discovered, unashamed and unafraid. 

 Let them be trained to transmit the facts of sci- 

 ence to posterity in ever increasing measure. 

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