Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-06
MANS PROGRESS.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE RACE WAS
BY RIGOROUS FIGHTING.


Untl He Has Become the Familiar Cap.
itslist of Today.
Every seat in Huntington hall was occu.
pied at the fourth lecture by Professor
Drummond ON the Evolution of Man" in
Che Lowell institute course.
Professor Drummond 'ssubject was, 1.-The
Struggle For Life" He said:
The first great struggle was TO get man
started on his upward journey The inertia
OF things is such that without compulsion
they will not move Of themselves. The
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 awey for safety
1.-THE first law Of evolution is the law of
motion. Mans body is a quivering mass
of earthen leaven. It is always on the verge
of something else. It is like a house built
on cards. A shock, friction, wind or fire
affects 10 strongly.
"A single movement of any part of the
body draws new energy to it. Man walks,
and muscles are made and developed In
child there is a constant building up-in an
old man a constant repairing
Under the stimulus of mpetition man
goes on to an advancing improvement.
Take him at the time when he was Mr.
Darwin 4-footed quadruped, and be wasn't
avery vigorous animal, and so as hecouldu't
do much with his. body he called something
else into actiOn-the midland 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 10 has continued until we
have the well developed, erect man Of to-
day.
''Io prove that this erect position is I'M
natural, take a baby when it is born, and
It is a quadruped, and for the first months
the baby goes on all tours Then also see
how man always wants to sit down.
'The next stage after an invention is to
improve upon il or TO further its useful
ness. After taking the club roughly torn
from the tree one was found one day with
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 in war,
and 50 other power was called into service
and the sling came into use.
To-day we have unpowder and dyna-
struggle for life has gone on. II 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 senseof power grew strong
er and with It the sense of virtue
Now he subiugates 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 fostermother of civilization, the
educator Of the races. 1t created larger
sphere for the individual
Each community is governed by the law
Of self preservation and so IL 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. lie lived alone and for |
himself Primitive man looked out for /
number one.
"A war com bination made him think Of /
100 instead of one He didn't stop thinking /
of himself but be 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 70
bear with others.
1.-THE struggle for life is as irresistible a
stimulus life itself The man must |
struggle
at is evolution or death. And among all |
the struggles some man viii once in awhile /
perform noble, self forgetful deed, and |
that deed seen by others will never be for
gotten, and az il is talked of around the |
campfire the love of heroism grows and 1
grows.
From the struggles Of tribes and com
munities energies the nation. Then comes
revolution.
IAN 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 a tribe.
He cauhot leave h. If the tribe fights,
be must fight. No man by the mere CON
struction Of the world liveth to himself
1T is absurd TO say that man evolved
himself As well might one say that book
printed itself II was impossible for the
savage TO Seepout Of natures machine. and /
once in the machine TO keep from being /
nodded byit
"The savage went IN the machine and |
came out the man.
"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 is called thesurvival Of the fittest |
II this Is to be q good world, the bad must |
be eliminated or transformed The law Of /
the survival Of the ittest demands that ev-
cry man and every animal shall live its |
best. No better law was ever evolved
Before science was born nature had /
termed the struggle of life war The first |
science was Of war, the first industry that |
of war; the first music that of celebrating a |
victory in war, and the first Selgion taught |
trust in the god of war.
Peace and the vices Of civil life only |