EVOLUTION 



ciliation? Is the idea as unthinkable as that two and 

 two make five? or as that a part is greater than the 

 whole? 



The whole tremendous drama of evolution, from 

 the first unicellular life up to man, and from the 

 dawn of history to tlie present time, illustrates and 

 confirms tlie idea that power does prevail and has 

 prevafled through all time, in the organic and in the 

 inorganic world. The weak go to the wall, the battle 

 is to the strong, the race is to the fleet, the wind 

 is not tempered to the shorn lamb. Inferior races 

 give way to superior, savage man goes down before 

 the more civilized, science crushes ignorance and 

 superstition. 



Professor Osborn in his "Men of the Old Stone 

 Age " shows how race succeeded race in Europe tens 

 of thousands of years ago, and that a growth in 

 brain was a growth in power. Do we not see that in 

 every community, every neighborhood, the strong 

 men prevail over the weak — brains, knowledge, 

 judgment, accumulate the wealth, build up the big 

 business, shape the policy of the state and the na- 

 tion? It is as inevitable as are gravity and cohesion. 

 The ideal in this respect is the man who in the com- 

 petition of life succeeds by perfectly fau* means, — 

 by superior industry, skill, judgment, economy, — 

 who not only lifts himself up, but carries the com- 

 munity up with him. That success is often attained 

 by unfair means does not invalidate the principle. 



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