EVOLUTION 



c$A Journal of Mature 



To Combat Bigotry and Superstition and Develop The Open Aiind by 

 Popularizing Natural Science 

 E. Katterfeld, Managing Editor: Allan Strong Broms, Science Editor 

 Maynard Shipley, Edwin Tenney Brewster, Horace Elmer Wood II 



Contributing Editors 



out regularly, and feci 



will ck'cni 



A Real Education 



Bi/ THOMAS HEXKV HI XLEY 



SL 1'1'OSE it were perfectly certain that the life 

 and fortune of every one of us would, one day 

 or another, depend upon his winning or losing 

 a game of chess. Uon't you think that we should 

 uU consider it a primary duty to learn at least the 

 names and the moves of the pieces, to have a notion 

 of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of 

 giving antl getting out of check? Do you not tiiink 

 that we should look with disapprobation amounting 

 to scorn, upon the father who allowed his son, or the 

 state which allowed its members, to grow up without 

 knowing a pawn from a knight? 



Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that 

 the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one 

 of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected 

 with us, do depend upon our knowing something of 

 the rules of a game infinitely more dirficult and com- 

 plicated than chess. It is a game which has been 

 jjlayed for untold ages, every man and woman of 

 us being one of the two players in a game of his or 

 her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces 

 the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the 

 game are what we call the laws of nature. The 

 player on the other side is hidden from us. We 

 know that his play is always fair, just and patient. 

 IJut also we know, to our cost, tiiat he never over- 

 looks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance 

 for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the 

 highest stakes are paid, with that sort of over- 

 flowing generosity with which the strong shows de- 

 light in strength. And one who pluys ill is check- 

 mated — without haste, but without remorse. 



Well, what I mean by Education is learning the 

 Man has°never passed through an arboreal stage, rules of this mighty game. In other words, educa- 

 Again, what of that? E\OLUTIO\ holds that our tion is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of 

 opinions on these points should be based solely upon nature, under which name I include not merely 

 what are found to be the facts, and influenced not things and their forces, but men and their ways ; 

 at all bv any yielding to popular prejudice. Cert- and the fashioning of the affections and of the will 

 ainly not a single reputable scientist living today into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony 



denies the Man-Ape relationship outright. The " 



dispute is merely as to the degree of this relation- 

 ship, and that can only be settled definitely upon 



IX RESUMIXG lUHLR'ATIOX of E\ OLl TIOX 



we wish to express our appreciation to all those 

 loval readers whose assistance has made this poss- 

 ible. We shall now come 

 sure that an ever growing circle of reade 

 EVOIA'TIOX worthy of their active co-operation. 

 EX'ERY reader is invited to take part in this effort 

 to dispel the darkness by spreading the light. 

 PERMIT rS TO IXTRODUCE three "contribut- 

 ing editors," wiio have already assisted in the pro- 

 duction of E^'OLUTIOX in the })ast. Edwin Ten- 

 ney Breicster is author of "Creation: A History 

 of' Non-evolutionary Theories" and of "This Puz/- 

 ling Planet;" Mtiynard Shipley is President of the 

 Science League of America; Horaee Elmer Wood 

 II is Professor of Geology at Xew York University. 

 COMMEMORATING THE FACT that the first 

 public recognition accorded Charles Darwin from 

 abroad was his election to the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Natural Sciences upon recommendation of Joseph 

 Leidy and Isaac Lea, Dr. Joseph Leidy II, repre- 

 senting the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, presented a bust of Darwni 

 at the recent dedication of Darwin's old iiome, 

 Down House, as a jjublic monument. EVOLUTION' 

 joins in honoring/ The Great Einaneipator of the 

 Human Intelleet with the reproduction on the front 

 cover. 



WHY THE EVIDEXT DESIRE of a number 

 of American scientists to erase the "taint" of our 

 ape-ancestry? What is there about it to fill us 

 with either pride or shame? Isn't it merely a ques- 

 tion of FACT? It may easily be true that Man 

 lias been Man for a nuich longer ]x>riod than we 

 had thought. If so, what of it? Suppose even that 



the" basis of additional evidence. Any feeling of 

 "disgrace" in this connection is unscientific senti- 

 mentalism, and ill serves the cause of Truth. "Soft- 

 pedalling" may be good for popular publicity, but 

 a scientist who presents his case so that even funda- 

 mentalist dogmatists can quote him with approval 

 as supporting them deserves no sympathy in hi.v 

 predicament. 



L. E. K. 



with those laws. For me, education means neither 

 more nor less than this. Anything which professes 

 to call itself education must be tried by this stand- 

 ard, and if it fails to stand the test, I will not call 

 it education, whatever may be the force of author- 

 ity or of numbers ujion the other side. 



When you know a tiling, to hold that you know it; 

 and when you do not know a thing to allow that 

 you do not know it — that is knowledge. 



Confucius. 



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