December. 1927 



EVOLUTION 



Page Thirteen 



THE WAR ON MODERN SCIENCE. By 

 Maynard Shipley. Published by Al- 

 fred Knopf: $3.00. 

 /"iNLY an ostrich -with his head in the 

 sand could deny, after reading May- 

 nard Shipley's "Short History of Funda- 

 mentalist Attacks on Evolution and Mod- 

 ernism" that these constitute a veritable 

 WAR ON MODERN SCIENCE- The 

 evidence compiled in this volume of over 

 400 pages is overwhelming. 



By way of introduction Mr. Shipley 

 gives an adequate analysis of the philoso- 

 phy upon which the conflict is based and 

 explains the aims and purposes of the 

 fundamentalists as opposed to the methods 

 of science. He then traces the far-flung 

 battle line between the army of reaction 

 and modern science State by State. 



In his final chapter on What Is To 

 Be Done he disposes of the pacifist who be- 

 lieves he solves the problem ty just letting 

 fundamentalism "go to seed" and sends 

 out a clarion call to action. "Meet or- 

 ganization with organization" is his pro- 

 gram, "Build the Science League of 

 America." 



Every statement made by the author in 

 this book is buttressed by citations from 

 authorities. In fact it is a veritable arsenal 

 of ammunition for the Evolutionist in the 

 front trenches of the battle line. 



L. E. K. 



nical errors. The result was Evolution for 

 John Doe. 



So now it has been told, this full and 

 magic life-story of the world- Endorsed 

 by scientists, prepared by years of study 

 and research, Mr. Ward has written a 

 volume of immeasurable value and interest 

 and importance to Mr. John Doe. — A. S. B. 



EVOLUTION FOR JOHN DOE. By Hen- 

 shaw Ward. Bobbs-Merrill Co., $3.50. 



T IKE the rest of us amateurs at science, 

 Henshaw Ward has sought the "plain 

 account of evolution — not something written 

 down to the level of a moron, not a 

 nature-loving rhapsody, but an actual de- 

 scription for intelligent people." He did 

 not find it. So he kept on asking, among 

 others, his professor friends at nearby 

 Yale University. Perhaps he pestered 

 them too long, or they recognized his native 

 capacities. At any rate a professor of 

 anthropology one day exploded with the 

 suggestion: "You write it. You have some 

 knowledge of the sciences involved; you 

 have imagination; you have long experi- 

 ence in writing of varied sorts; you are 

 excited about the wonders of modern bi- 

 ology. Why don't you tackle this evolu- 

 tion job? It will keep you busy for a 

 while." 



Mr. Ward was amused, then interested. 

 It had possibilities. He asked a biologist 

 friend. "Don't try," was the answer. "It 

 can't be done." That settled it. He made 

 up his mind to do it. 



After two years he had a manuscript 

 ready. He asked the professors for crit- 

 icisms. They corrected some things, chal- 

 lenged others. They cleared it of tech- 



MY HERESY: The Autobiography of An 

 Idea. By William Montgomery Brown. 

 The John Day Company: $2.00. 

 TNSTEAD of giving you a conventional 

 review of this remarkable book by 

 Bishop William Montgomery Brown, I'll 

 merely say that it is the most sincere and 

 human document that I have ever read, 

 and quote a few sentences from one chap- 

 ter headed "My Universe EWsappears" : 



"I began to read Origin of Species." 

 ... It was a completely new kind of 

 reading matter to me. It seemed to 

 take nothing for granted. It did not 

 lay down a principle to be proved. 

 There was no apologetics here, no at- 

 tempt to "justify the ways of God to 

 man." Also there was no "inner light." 

 and no profound conviction upon the 

 part of the author that he had been 

 ordained to extinguish other people's 

 lights so that the whole world should 

 thereafter use nothing but his. 



"This Darwin was not seemingly con- 

 cerned with making converts. He was 

 just noticing things — living things — and 

 watching how they acted. ... If some 

 one had noticed something that he had 

 missed, or if his own notes were incor- 

 rect in any way, he would be awfully 

 obliged if corrections were made. 



"To me, who had been used to con- 

 troversial literature, this was extraor- 

 dinary reading, for something very 

 strange had happened to me. I had be- 

 come curious about life. . . . 



"To learn about life by noting how 

 it behaves, instead of laying down a 

 law of behavior, surely had its fascina- 

 tions. This was my first experience, and 

 it filled me with terror, but I soon found 

 that I could not stop. I finished Origin 

 of Species more eager for knowledge 

 than when I picked it up." 

 What happened to this orthodox Epis- 

 copalian Bishop who had become "curious 

 about life" and "eager for knowledge" 

 makes a tale more interesting than any 

 novel. It is the kind of story that you 

 will not only enjoy reading yourself, but 

 you'll ask your friends to read it just as 

 I am asking you to read it now. And the 

 reading of it will mark the turning point 

 in many a life. L. E. K. 



AN OUTLINE OF MAN'S KNOWLEDGE. 

 By Clement Wood. Published by Lewis 

 Copeland Company, Inc. $5.00 Just 

 received. Will bo reviewed in our next. 



SOME BOOKS WORTH READING 

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 bring to the attent-ion of its readers 

 books it believes will interest them. Each 

 of the books on this list has its individual 

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RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE: Ernst 

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