AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



If the biologist finds himself now, as we 

 have already pointed out that he does, 

 quite unable to say much worth listening 

 to about the future of human beings after 

 death, he is at least ready to venture some 

 suggestions about the future of the human 

 species in its material relations to the 

 world and world conditions it lives in, 

 and about the possibilities or probabilities 

 of its further development or evolution. 



This evolution is a fundamental ele- 

 ment in life. Primarily it simply means 

 change, but history, geologic and bio- 

 logic history, has shown that this change 

 has been progressive, it is change forward 

 and upward. What causes it we do not 

 know, despite our glimpse of some of 

 its factors; what it really is we do not 

 know, despite our sight of its results. 

 "Some call it Evolution, and others call 

 it God," sings William Carruth. But it 

 is real. Human life today is what it is 

 because of it; human life will be tomor- 

 row what it will be, because of it. Is the 

 biologist in position to hazard prophecy as 

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