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EVOLUTION 



March, 1929 



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a series of articles by 



STUART CHASE 



A RE we using machines, or 

 ''"*• machines us ? Are they the 

 independent race Samuel But- 

 ler and others have dreaded, 

 with a biology of their own, 

 destined to reduce us to 

 robots? A bilHon horsepower 

 are turning wheels. Where 

 are the wheels going? 



Stuart Chase surveys the his- 

 tory and mythology of the 

 Machine through the same 

 lens he used in "Your Money's 

 Worth" and "The Tragedy of 

 Waste." If you are weary of 

 wholesale denunciation and 

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a widely quoted discussion of 

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 by John Hodgdon Bradley, Jr. 



The Facts about Influenza 



by Morris Fishbein 



Einstein and the Press 

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So THIS IS Farm Relief? 



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Since Darwin's day, full many a jape 

 About our ancestor the ape 

 Has filled the comic paper's pages 

 And doubtless will for many ages. 



But having got that story told 

 The scientists become more bold 

 We hear from Doctor Elliot Smith 

 -\ tale most eloquent, the pith 

 Of which is just that he and you 

 Are both descended from a shrew: 

 A nasty tempered little shrew ! 



Worse than an ape, if that be true. 

 .And then from Africa there looms 

 This theory of Robert Broom's, 

 Whereby our ancestry is led 

 Back to the ancient Karroo bed 

 To primitive reptilian fonts 

 In horrid old Theriodonts ! 



It's bad enough to have an ape 



For ancestor, but you could do 



Much worse, for now we have a shrew 



To head our family tree, or place 



A crawling reptile for our race 



To worship as our ancestor 



Our deified progenitor ! 



But now the scientists with pep 

 Have taken still another step 

 And Doctor Gregory insists 

 We place on our ancestral lists 

 Some ancient fishes primitive 

 That in primeval seas did live. 

 A clumsy, awkward, slimy fish, 

 Not fit to serve upon a dish ! 



Then Doctor Stensio will trace 

 The fishes to an earlier race 

 Ostracoderms with names so shocking 

 You can't pronounce them without 



choking. 

 And next the scientist will find 

 The evolution of our kind 

 Goes back to arthropod or worm 

 That in the Cambrian slime would 



squirm. 

 Oh must this be, my learned friend? 

 My geneology to end 

 In writhing worm — whose better fate 

 Is use as Presidential bait? 



Oh come ! let's stop it at the ape 

 .4t least he's got some human shape. 

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