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EVOLUTION 



December, 1927 



EUOLUTION 



A Journal of Mature 



To combat bigotry and superstition and 



develop the open mind by popularizing 



natural science 



Published monthly by 



Evolution Publishing Corporation 



96 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 



L. E. Katterfeld, 



Managing Editor 



Subscription rate: One dollar per year 

 In lists of five or more (in U- S. A., out- 

 side Netv York City ) , fifty cents 

 Single copy, 10 cents 

 20 or more at 5 cents each 



NUMBER 1 DECEMBER, 1927 



OUR NAME 



17V0LUTI0N has been selected as 

 the name of this magazine be- 

 cause the evolutionary concept of 

 man's development is the idea upon 

 which fundamentalists have seized to 

 build an issue. It symbolizes the en- 

 tire conflict between those who see 

 life through the eyes of science and 

 those who look upon it chiefly 

 through the misty superstitions of 

 the past. 



The fundamentalists have a stra- 

 tegic advantage in their nearness to 

 the public ear. Men of science are 

 separated from the masses by their 

 vocabulary, dislike of publicity and 

 absorption in work. 



This magazine will help bridge 

 that gap by furnishing a forum in 

 which science itself can speak in 

 popular language without fear of the 

 restraints with which fundamentalists 

 are seeking to shackle them. 



With full realization of the difficul- 

 ties involved. Evolution will en- 

 deavor to hew to this line. 



OUR POLICY 

 'T^HE preliminary announcement of 

 Evolution stated that: 



"Evolution will be non-political, 

 so that all upholders of academic 

 freedom can support and use it no 

 matter how they differ on other 

 issues. It will be non-religious, 

 never making any effort to reconcile 

 science with religion. Nor will it 

 make atheism its mission. It will 

 carry the positive message of facts 

 from every field of natural science 

 and leave it to the reader to make 

 his own mental readjustment." 



The favorable reception accorded 

 to this announcement convinces us 

 that this policy will develop a large 

 field of usefulness for Evolution. 



FROM MULES? 



TT is pretty certain that two people, 

 evolutionist and anti-evolutionist, 

 will outrageously misrepresent them- 

 selves when they get into an argument 

 about evolution. Each moves to the 

 extreme opposite position and sticks 

 there like a bull dog to a root. Not 

 a jot of impression, for all the argu- 

 ments leveled at him, will either re- 

 veal. Yet, when the tumult and the 

 shouting have died away each has 

 picked up something to think about, 

 though admit it to the other he cer- 

 tainly never will. 



That's the only good of the super- 

 heated argument. The surprising 

 thing is the hope that springs eternal 

 that the one disputant will get the 

 other overtlv to give in. That should 

 not be expected — it isn't human na- 

 ture. 



Man must be descended from 

 mules, not monkeys. A. G. I. 



that the educated Englishman, ac- 

 customed more or less to ignoring 

 the opinions of the common people 

 of his country, has insisted on com- 

 paring the beliefs of England's in- 

 telligentsia with those of America's 

 masses. A. G. I. 



THOSE IGNORANT AMERICANS 

 "I^NGLAND has made a discovery. 

 She harbors, right in her midst, a 

 number of souls who do not believe 

 in evolution! We had supposed), 

 after reading innumerable rather 

 smug, self-satisfied criticisms of 

 America's ignorant backward popu- 

 lation, that every Englishman from 

 William the Conqueror to George the 

 Fifth, and from Land's End to John 

 0' Groats was an authority on or- 

 ganic evolution. 



The day after Sir Arthur Keith, 

 famous anatomist-evolutionist, pre- 

 sented his presidential address on 

 Darwin's theory of evolution before 

 the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, the British 

 backfires began. The address got 

 into the papers where the plain peo- 

 ple — not, of course, ignorant and 

 backward like ours — got hold of it. 

 The old controversy, supposed to be 

 dead in England since the eighties, 

 awoke to life again. 



Said Sir Arthur Keith with sur- 

 prise: "It is clear that Daytonism is 

 alive and vigorous in England. 

 There are still, I am surprised to 

 learn, many men and women who are 

 convinced there is only one reliable 

 account of man's origin — that given 

 in the Book of Genesis."' 



The trouble has been, all alona:, 



FUNDAMENTALISTS ANNOUNCE 

 NEW CAMPAIGN 



'PHE Associated Press reports that 

 ^ Dr. W. H. Riley, President of 

 the World's Christian Fundamentals 

 Association has just announced in 

 Oklahoma City the launching of a 

 new attack against teaching evolu- 

 tion in Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar- 

 kansas. In Kansas and Oklahoma the 

 fight will be in the legislatures, while 

 in Arkansas they will appeal direct 

 to the voters through referendum. 



Dr. Riley has promised to write 

 an article for Evolution stating the 

 fundamentalist plans. We hope to re- 

 ceive it in time for our next issue. 



CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS 



ISSUE 



HORACE J. BRIDGES: leader 

 of the Chicago Society for 

 Ethical Culture; author of The 

 God of Fundamentalism and 

 Other Studies and numerous 

 other works on ethics. 



WILLIAM K. GREGORY: noted 

 authority on comparative anat- 

 omv and vertibrate paleontol- 

 ogy; Fellow and Vice President 

 of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences. 



ALBERT G. INGALLS: associate 

 editor of The Scientific Ameri- 

 can. 



DAVID STARR JORDAN: Presi- 

 dent Emeritus of Stanford Uni- 

 versity; noted naturalist expo- 

 nent of Darwin's theory of evo- 

 lution; author of many books on 

 science. 



HARRY ALLEN OVERSTREET: 

 head of the department of phil- 

 osophy at the College of the 

 City of New York and a leader 

 in modern thinking upon ethi- 

 cal problems. 



MAYNARD SHIPLEY: President 

 of the Science League of Amer- 

 ica and author of The War on 

 Modern Science. 



HENSHAW WARD: author of 

 Evolution for John Doe, The 

 Circus of the Intellect and Ex- 

 ploring the Universe. 



