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E V L U T I iN 



April, 1928 



LIBRARY FUND 



In response to our call for a Library 

 Fund the following contributions were 



From Our Readers 



ade: 



J. M. A. Spence.. 



J. C. Reeve 



John Dequer _ 



$5.00 

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Mrs. J. 0. Beebe.,... 

 This places sixteen public libraries on 

 our mailing list for a year. We can send 

 Evolution to hundreds of libraries, where 

 it will be displayed on the reading room 

 racks, if our friends will contribute the 

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By Thomas H. Huxley \ 



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"Your editorial, 'Pussyfooting." does not 

 bear out the facts. It was decided that it 

 would be better policy to avoid empha- 

 sizing the word 'evolution" and allied com- 

 ment at the Nashville meeting. The fight 

 is not so much on the doctrine or subject, 

 fact or hypothesis of evolution as it is a 

 fight for academic freedom. There was 

 no reason, in the opinions of our best 

 informed academicians, "to revive the sub- 

 ject." There were olher matters of vast 

 importance scheduled to take up the time 

 of the gentlemen and gentlewomen who 

 attended the Nashville meeting. With all 

 due respect I believe the magazine im- 

 properly edited." — F. von Falkenberg, 

 Florida. 



"Congratulations on the splendid num- 

 bers which you have issued." — E. M. 

 Kindle, Geological Survey, Canada. 



"My Brooklyn Botanical Garden friend 

 makes me tired when he "regrets' that 

 Evolution proposes to use ridicule against 

 fundamental ignorance — when Billy Sun- 

 day, Riley and others invoke hell and 

 brimstone ag'ainst scientists. Your idea of 

 evolution is capital. Go to it while you 

 are young." — J. M. Holzinger, Minnesota. 



'"I am enclosing one dollar for a year's 

 subscription to Evolution. I hope that 

 your organization may do something to- 

 ward popularizing knowledge of evolution 

 in the South and especially at the present 

 time in Florida, where there will soon be 

 an exceedingly strong fundamentalist at- 

 tack upon the teaching of this theory. I 

 would like to see your periodical on the 

 newsstands in the South. What I am 

 most interested in is to see that it does as 

 much good as possible and is not confined 

 to a small clientele of readers." — S. J. 

 Holmes, California. 



"A bundle of thanks for the issue of 

 Evolution. I congratulate you and your 

 inspiring publication. Give 'em hades. 

 Success to your 'ole pen' and may the 

 devil catch it where it does the most 

 good.' — W. De Coster, Minnesota. 



'"Your magazine is like a sharp hatchet 

 chopping the tree of theology. It may 

 look like a big job, but don"t be alarmed; 

 the tree is not sound under the' bark." — 

 J. De Rose, New York. 



"Evolution is indeed 'evoluting' in 

 admirable fashion — growing belter with 

 each succeeding issue. I cannot refrain 

 from 'starting the ball rolling" toward a 

 Library Fund. Herewith is five dollars to 

 pay for sending your big little magazine 

 to ten public libraries for one year. Suc- 

 cess to you in spreading the light of 

 science throughout these benighted 

 Stales." — J. M. A. Spence, Illinois. 



"I showed Evolution to a great church- 

 man, who seemed properly shocked. But 

 it faded from view about the time he left. 

 And I had not yet read it." — Joel H 

 Greene, Minnesota. 



"I feel happy if I can get more and 

 more subscribers. This is the only way 

 to educate the people." — Fr. Masek. 111. 



"We shall try and make a success of 

 this (dinner), and possibly we can organ- 

 ize a group of some kind to bring a lec- 

 turer here occasionally." — Marcus De Zee, 

 New York. 



"Nevertheless, to show you I still think 

 of Evolution, I enclose check for the 

 following (three subscribers)." — Daniel 

 Laufer, New York. 



"The (five) subscriptions are sent with 

 the stipulation that none of these names 

 appear in the "Honor Roll' or in any other 

 column of this publication without the 

 consent of the subscribers. Sincerely 

 yours ." 



EVOLUTION AND MORALS 



By W. C. -Macpherson 



A fundamentalist quoted in your Feb- 

 ruary number affirms that "monkey mere 

 make tnonkey morals", amplifying this alli- 

 terative gem with other similar statements. 

 This argument will doubtless be met often 

 and will be offered with some apparent 

 justification by those who believe that 

 morality — decent conduct — is the result 

 of standard conviction concerning punish- 

 ment and reward. 



Morality based upon hope or fear of con- 

 sequences is a pretense, — a counterfeit. — 

 to '"get by"' with the public. Those who 

 honestly care to be decent for the sake of 

 decency; to be respectable on principle: 

 to be moral for humanitarian reasons will 

 have their eyes wide open to nature's facts 

 and much more consistently than those who 

 cling to delusions and formulate their 

 standards of conduct from motives of 

 policy. 



Even if the reverse were true it would 

 in no way alter the facts of evolution. 

 Darwin's deductions are made no more 

 substantial, and no less so, by any opinion 

 or observation as to what may or may not 

 follow as a consequence of believing them. 



Proper standards of conduct are ob- 

 viously not guaranteed by religious per- 

 suasions. No more will they be endangered 

 by a clearer general knowledge of facts 

 underlying the world's phenomena. 



Those who maintain that it were not 

 wise to entrust the public with a knowl- 

 edge of facts, acknowledge by that argu- 

 ment, that they are deliberately advocating 

 what thcv know lo be false. 



PITY THE HEATHEN 



If Evolution reaches only con- 

 vinced evolutionists it isn't worth print- 

 ing. Our real task is to carry the 

 facts about evolution to those who do 

 not understand what it is all about, so 

 they can no longer be stampeded by 

 fundamentalists. This we can do only 

 with your help. Order a few extra 

 copies to give friends and neighbors. 

 We'll send you five copies each month 

 for a whole year for only $2.50. 



