The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-06-12
4 MANS PROGRESS.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE RACE WAS
BY RIGOROUS FIGHTING.

From tho Unthinking Animal Man Has
Untn ue Has Become the Familiar Cap
italist of Today.
Every seat in Huntington hall was occu-
pied at the fourth lecture by Professor
Drummond on the Evolution Of Man" in
the Lowell institute course
Professor Drummond's subject 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 away for safety.
! THE first law of evolution is the law OF
motion. Mans body is a quivering mass
OF eartben leaven. 1t is always on the verge
Of something else. 1t is like house built
on cards. A shock, friction, wind or fire
affects it strongly.
"A single movement of ar v part of the
body draws new energy to it. Man walks,
and muscles are made and developed. Ina
child there is a constant building up-in 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
avery vigorous animal, and so as he couldn't
do much with his body he called something
else into action-the mind-and the quad
ruped took n club to help him in his strug-
gle for life.
ITO use q 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 n baby when 1t Is born and
7 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 f;,rthest was the most successful In war,
and so other power was called into service,
anu tne sling came INTO use.
To-day we have gunpowder and dyna-
mite to do this same service, aud 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 ana
bulbs suggested agriculture. By catching
ut first the young or wild animals and keep
ing them for their flesh and milk the adj
vantage of domestic animals was shown.
i 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 subiugatcs 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 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 II 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
100 instead OF one. He didn't stop 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. ..... ..- ..a..
I 1T is evolution or death And among all
the struggles some man will once in awhile
perform u noble, self forgetful deed, and
that deed seen by others will never be for.
gotten, and IA it is talked of around the
campfire the love of heroism grows aud
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 single
isolated savage has ever been found He
must belong to Il tribe.
He cannot leave it. If the tribe fights,
he must fight. No man by the mere con
struction OF the world liveth to himself
1T is absurd to say that man evolved
himself. Aswell might one say that book
printed 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.
1.-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 It's great
moral value. The other name for this
: struggle Is called the survival of the fittest.
If this to be IA good world, the bad must
he eliminated or transformed. The law Of
the survival OF the tlttest 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 ltfc war The first
science was Of war, the first industry that
, of war, the first music that of celebrating II
victory in war, and the first religion taught
trust in the god of war.
Peace md the vices of civil life only
flourish together. But it is here that the
, student of history is in danger of going off
the rail. 1t is possible to believe that all is
/ now to go on peacefully. This is wrong
/ But nothing can justify war today among
. civilized nations.
! The struggle of life, however, must still
go on. The social struggle is now going ON.
! Instead of the struggle for bread, the strug.
gle is for money with which TO buy bread,
aud these struggles result in making man
better. Boston Herald.
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