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they are now teaching them. For if these were 

 true, if materialistic evolution were not, as it is, a 

 lie from the nethermost depths of hell, then 

 Blatchford had been perfectly right when he fear- 

 lessly said of the criminal who murdered a child 

 for the few poor coppers it held in its hand, and 

 then threw its little body into a ditch: "He is not 

 to blame not to be punished." 



That is the social progress promised us by ma- 

 terialistic evolution, and given us by learned 

 university professors, in stately cap and gown. In 

 no small part the rationalistic world has already 

 achieved it in its disregard for human life, its 

 birth control, its obscenities and nudities that are 

 paraded without any sense of shame, its defiance 

 of sex distinctions, its destruction of the home, its 

 irresponsible wealth, its premeditated slowing of 

 the processes of labor, its enactment of laws that 

 imply a despair of virtue and s^lf-control except 

 when enforced by police authorities, its revolu- 

 tions upon revolutions and proletarian dictator- 

 ships beginning with loot, lust and murder, and 

 ending, God knows how ! and add to this all the 

 mass of vicious or prurient literature which is the 

 product of debased minds and race degenerates, 

 but which is trumpeted to the four winds of 

 heaven by all the means at the disposal of the most 

 unscrupulous of advertising agencies. Yet all this 

 is logical, supremely logical, in the full light of 

 what is being taught as materialistic evolution 



