The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-03-31

to experiment. "A thing may reason out
all right" said Prof. Jordan, but you may
lack some of the data to judge from, there
fore the result of your reasoning will be
faulty. Now in this age of reason people
believe that for every disease nature pro-
vides it's cure. This is not so. Nature pro-
vides no remedies. Nature provides some
reliefs, but remedies do not exist. 1t Is
often reasoned that vice, crime and disease
are caused by poverty, but turn 1t round,
and 1t can be reasoned as truly that
poverty causes vice. disease and crime
If the wealth of the world should be
equally divided we should not be rid Of vice,
disease or crime.
MANY things are theoretically true, but
when put to the test of operation will not
work. If it does not work that fact in itself
proves that it is not theoretically true, but
that there Is lacking some of the data on
which the whole theory, to be true, should
be based. Every gift of the gods has a
string to it," said the professor as he ex-
planned how all influences for gain had
their drawbacks.
EVOLUTION
''The theory of evolution, in the early
days of its existence, was thought to be
very simple thing There is no simple law
of evolution. There are number of forces
at work in evolution. We do not even yet
know what all these forces are. We find
that one great law of evolution in man as
we'll as in animals is heredity. That force
that causeS the offspring to resemble it's
parent. Another force In evolution and
second in it's Importance is individuality.
Everybody has this quality of individuality
to a greater or less degree. None of us are
exact copies of our parents. We each of
us inherit that mosaic of qualities that re-
suits from many ancestors which prevents
any individual from being exactly like an
other.
'Irritability Is another force of evoiu-
ton. The irritability of the individual
causes it to react against the cause of the
irritation and this reaction in turn tends
to strengthen the individuality. Inclination
is still another force. All these forces ex-
ert their influence in the process of evolu-
ton. Then comes the great process, that of
natural selection. More of every living spe-
cies is given life than can possibly live.
This condition gives rise to the process of
natural selection. Sometimes the struggle
for existence is hard, sometimes easy but
out of this perpetual struggle comes those
that are best fitted to survive and live
This is the great force of evolution.
STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
at was not until lately that man discov-
cred the universally of this struggle for
existence. Different historians of social
evolution have ascribed certain changes to
single causes. Thus one historian lays
stress on the force of heredity, claiming
that through heredity the salvation from
social evils is to be worked out, but you
cannot be sure of anything on heredity.
The surrounding conditions exert chang
ing influence on heredity. Other historians
thought that self-activity was everything;
others argued that isolation would prove
to be the best means of insuring survival.
All Of these theories have proved them
selves to be untrue The element or law
of mutual aid, the standing together of a
race or species has been the great element
In the survival of that race or species.
Those races of men that have taken the
best care of their young have survived the
longest, and right here we have the factor
Of altruism.
ALTRUIsM
"Altruism," explained Prof. Jordan. "is
from the Latin and translated means for
the good Of others. Altruism = NOT : ia.