THE CROWN OF EVOLUTION 



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In both lines of inheritance the present generation picks 

 up the threads of life where the last generation stopped its 

 spinning. The next generation will begin where the present 

 generation leaves off ; and from these threads the warp and 

 woof of human his- 



tory is being woven. 

 Nor is this all. 

 Side by side with in- 

 ventions and dis- 

 coveries walked the 

 spiritual part of man. 

 It lifted him above 

 the sordid life about 

 him. It set bim on a 

 pinnacle high above 

 all other creatures. 

 It made him con- 

 scious of time and 

 space, of past and 

 future. It gave him 

 knowledge of right 

 and wrong, a feel- 

 ing of responsibility 

 for other men. 



The Hapsburg Jaw, a Famous Example 

 or Physical Inheritance 



Charles the Second of Spain inherited it from an 

 Austrian princess in 1661. The present king of Spain 

 has it from the same source. In this illustration the 

 young king's face is so turned that the distinction is 

 not emphasized. (After Stoddard Goodhue, in the 

 Cosmopolitan Magazine for July, 1913) 



Before man arrived, no creature had ever studied the past 

 for the sake of understanding the future. Man does this. 

 He learns the laws of development by studying the past, 

 and he applies these laws in shaping the future. Because of 

 this he now walks the earth with conscious power. He 

 knows that by using knowledge, judgment, and will power 

 he may alter his own destiny almost at will. He also knows 

 that by his personal decisions in this generation he may 



