Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-09-22

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III .ery seat in Huntington hall was oee>.,
Die L at fthe fourth lecture by Processes
Drufnmond on the Evolution OF Man" Ill
the Lowell Institute course.
Professor Drummond's subject was, 1.-THE
Struggle For Life" He said:
1.-The first great struggle was to get man
started on his upward journey. The inertia
of things is such that without compulslon
they will not move of themselves Inc
whole world moves, and therefore every
thing in the world must move
"A man eats food in the morning, but he
must soon move to get more. The sun
moves to the west, the wild animals move
about, and the man moves away for safety.
1.-The first law Of evolution is the law OF
motion. Mans body is qulvering mass
of earthen leaven. 1t is always on the verge
of something else. 1t is like house pullt
affects it strongly.
"A single movement of any part of the
| body draws new energy it. Man walks,
and muscles are made and developed. Ina
| child there is a constant building up-lh an
| old man constant repairing.
Under the stimulus of competition man
goes on to an advancing improvement.
| Take him at the time when he was Mr..
Darwin's 4-footed quadruped, and he wasn't
very vigorous animal, and so as hecouldn't
do much with his body he called something
| else into action-the mind-and the quad
ruped took club to help him in his strug-
| gle for life.
| ITO use a club the animal must stand
erect, and SO it has continued until we
| have the well developed, erect man of to-
day.
"To prove that this erect position is I'M
| natural, take a baby when it is born, and
| it is quadruped, and for the first months
| the baby goes on all tours Then also see
how man always wants to sit down.
1.-THE next stage after an invention is to
improve upon it or to further its useful
ness. After taking the club roughly torn
from the tree one was found one day with
| a point, and that was appreciated, and the
clubs were sharpened by rubbing them
| against rough stones, and in that way the
| spear came into use.
Then the man that could throw his spear
the farthest was the most successful i'll war,
and so other power was called into service,
and the sling came into use.
To-day we have gunpowder and dyna-
mite to do this same service, and thus the
struggle for life has gone on. 1t is not mere
accident; it is the predestined evolution of
man.
Digging in the soil for mollusks and
bulbs suggested agriculture. By catching
at first the young or wild animals and keep
ing them for their flesh and milk the ad-
vantage of domestic animals was shown
Man slowly passed from the animal to
the savage. The sense of power grew strong
er and with it the sense of virtue.
Now he subjugates other animals and
other men and takes to himself the best of
the earth. The struggle of life is called
war. War to evolution is not simply war
fare, but the means of developing man.
War is the foster mother of civilization, the
educator of the races. 1t created a larger
sphere for the individual.
Each community is governed by the law
of self preservation, and so it is forced to
fight for sufficient food with which to feed
itself, and so occurred the struggles for the
most fertile lands, the best game reserve
and the best fishing waters That is war
primitive man was "a selfish man. He
was so of necessity. He lived alone and for
himself Primitive man looked out for
number one.
"A war combination made him think of
lOO liloOCttl VI Ullt. I1t uluu SIOD thinking
of himself, but he slowly began to think of
Others Number two was his WIFE Three,
four and five were his children. After
learning to bear with these, he learned to
bear with others.
THE struggle for life is as irresistible a
stimulus as life itself. The man must
struggle.
1T is evolution or DEATH And among all
the STRUGGLES Coma m IN Uni onoo o., 81 n.
perform a noble, self forgetfuI deed, and
that deed seen by others will never be for
gotten, and as it is talked of around the
campfire the love of heroism grows and
grows.
From the struggles of tribes and COM
munities emerges the nation. Then comes
revolution.
An isolated man could not live in a saw
age country. Either he would be forced to
unite with tribe or he would be killed. In
all the explorations of Africa not a single
isolated savage has ever been found. He
must belong to tribe
lie cannot leave it, If the tribe fights,
ne must night No man by the mere con-
sUructlon OF the world liveth to himself
III Is absurd to say that man evolved
himself AS well might one say that a book
prihCeu Itself. 1t was impossible for the
savage to keep out of natures machine. and
once in the machine to keep from being
nodded by it.
The savage went in the machine and
came out the man. N
The struggle for life is only one factor
IN evolution. Science did not invent the
struggle for life; it only showed its great
moral value. The other name for this
struggle rs called the survival of the attest
II TINS Is to be good world, the bad must
De eliminated or transformed. The law of
the survival of the fittest demands that ov.
cry man and every animal shall live lie
pest. No better law was ever evolved
Before science was born nature bo5
termed the struggle of life war. The frst
science was OF war, the first industry that
Vi war the first music that of celebrating a
victory in war, and the first religion tsnaht
Tust in the god of war. gnu
Peace and the vices of civil Iifo o,,u
nourish together. But it is here that tl
student OF history is in danger of 0oimo ' o,s
tne rail- 1t is possible to believe that q, ~ q
now now 10 go on peacefully This is wron ron
1u1 ihoIhlng can justify war TODAY among
Inc struggle of life, however. mist sti,,