Man in the Light of Evolution 



elbows and bursts out in a cheer along the line 

 of battle. We hold mass meetings to stir patri- 

 otic feeling. Some learned and thoughtful men 

 seem to have forgotten that cool judgment is 

 not the whole of life or the intellect the only 

 faculty. That " blind giant," the will, must also 

 be counted. Action is at least of equal impor- 

 tance with thought. If we do not feel or care, 

 we certainly will not act vigorously. 



Some of us, too, in our zeal for progress seem 

 to have forgotten that all our heritage from the 

 past is not bad. This is a sad rehabilitation of 

 the theory of total depravity. The primitive 

 may still be good in essence. Even our benighted 

 ancestors, upon whom we look down with such 

 royal conceit, discovered some things worth re- 

 membering, and often lived very vigorous and 

 worthy lives. 



In patriotism, religion, and philanthropy, in- 

 tellectual perception alone is not enough. Feel- 

 ing and will are essential for life and action. 

 Otherwise a militant and triumphant faith, in 

 the best sense of the word, degenerates into a 

 dead system of philosophy, which merely cum- 

 bers the ground and exhales germs of senile 

 paralysis. When we have attained a reasonable 



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