The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1888-03-29

east; then nature tells the savage that
the rain comes from the melting Of the
ice OF the sky. Many, strange, fool
lsh, and false are the stories that
nature tells to the untutored savage.
Nature is the Gullver of Gullivers,
the Munchausen of Munchausens.
Nature teaches men To believe in
wizards and in ghosts. Nature fills
the human mind with foolish supersti-
tions and horrible beliefs, The opin-
ions of the natural man FL him with
many fears, give many pains, and
cause him to commit many crimes.
Out of all these savage super,titions
man has travelled long way INTO the
light of science. And how shall the
opinions of modern civilization be
characterized2 And who can tell how
the knowledge of the highest ciyiiza-
ton transcends the knowledge of the
lowest savageryl And 80 opinions
have been chsnging old opinions
have died, and new opinions have
been born and PHILOSOPHERS have
struggled for existence az man has en-
deavosed to learn; and with man for
tlons. Animal evolution arises out of
the struggle for existence; human
evolution arises out Of the endeavor
to secure happiness; 1t is conscious
effort for improvement in condition.
"By human endeavor man has
created speech, by which he may ex
press his thoughts. Aud out of this
endeayor, in all lands and in all time,
the rnorganized languages of savages
have been developed into the langu-
ages of modern civilization; and all
this progress, all this evolution is by
human endeasor; and in it natural
selection, as that term is understood
in biology, has played no part. Along
the course of human progress opinions
have been changing. The cruelty OF
nature in biotic evolution has been set
forth. Ia this figure Of speech nature
is personiiied, and, if we still personify
nature, to the savale 3 man nature was
ever deceiyer aud cheat Nature
tells the savage that the earth is Hat,
over which the sky is arehed as a
solid dome: then nature tells the saw
age that the sun travels over the flat
earth, aud under the sky of ice, by
day from east to west, and returns
again in a cave by night from west to
ever the struggle to know has been
the endeavor to secure happiness, for
truth is good, and wisdom Is joy. At
tention has been already been called
to the fact that among the lowest
forms of life there exists marvellous
idto Vi ttIhodtStith. ~ AiiC du-
vances, and plauts and animals are
developed, the powers of reproduction
are curtailed, until man in the highest
civilization, and in the highest culture
OF that civilation, is reached, when the
rate Of reproduction is at minimum.
In thus state of culture the transfer of
the struggle for existence from man to
the works of his creation is complet ID.
With this transfer there occurs
another Of wonderful nature. The
marvellous powers of reproduction are
transferred from the body of man to
the soul of man, and he multlplies his
intellectual creations at an amazing
rate. Aru are multiplied 10 secure
the joys of life, Institutions are null
tiplied to secure justice, linguistics are
multiplied to secure mental communi-
cation. and multiplied truths are dis
covered, so that the body of science is
expanding toward the infinite and to-
ward the lnhnitesimal. Science.