Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-11
10 MCDILL'S MUSINGS.
EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY.

EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
Evolution is the process of unfolding. II is
found wherever there is advance Behind the
unfolding is the germ. The germ is shrouded
in mystery. The germ is of God.
All things have beginnng-a springng
from the germ. Just as true of thoughts as of
weeds and animals.
The germ of the American republic was
thought of long before tine days of Washing
ton and Jefferson. The child of thought and
labor. through much tribulatiOn, attained 10
the estate of manhood-not mature, but of Wig
orous body and active brain.
The sentiment that chattel slavery was wrong
was old be fore Abraham Lincoln. The child
cannot be an adult until the organs are fully
developed.
Thoughts, sentiments and principles grow as
grows the child. In the beginning, the or,
.gaus are all existant, but they ale not strong
enough for great tasks. Nature is slow, but
patient and sure. Civilization is subject to the
same law of evolution as that of man or ami
mails.
Even religion has been subjected to laws of
evolution. The teachings of Jesus would have
fallen on unheeding ears in the days of Moses.
lin the days of Moses, people were so low in
the scale of civilization as to have not even
taken the trouble to cruelty Jesus. David and
Solomon would not pass muster in any we'll
disciplined organization of to-day. Elijah and
Jeremiah, set beside Jesus, are monsters.
The doctrine that "rhou shalt love thy
neiehbor as thyself" is the germ thought of
all true civilization. The doctrine has liberat-
ed tens of millions of slaves. 1t set up the
American republic. 1t manumitted the blacks
of the Southern states. 1t created free schools.
Ii erects hospitals and asylums. Individuals
and organizations are down in the slums seek
ing to deliver and uplift fallen humanity.
Steadily, but surely, the germ of universal
bro; herhood is unfolding. Even the skeptics
and ;.isots are joining hands.
Creeds are losing their force. The child is
attaining 10 the estate of vigorous manhood.
He calls for work. The period OF light tasks
is past. The faith period is past. We believe
in what we see, and we are eager to behold.
s.The traditions of the elders" are siftsd, and
.he chat is cast to the winds. We call for no
new savior, but demand the application of the
old. Our religion is entering upon a new
stage of existence. The 'sheep' demand to
feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit The
iu,pr,soued, minister to the sick.
Never in the worlds history were human
svmpathes SO active as to-day. There may
be-lr re is-a falling away f,on the priest
and ere dis, but there is no falling away from
az I'VE Chi, ministration.
'rh. mental stomach assimilates strong food.
The lungs work with the force of bellows. The
heart beats and throbs in tumultuous ebbs and
aows. The frame work is like iron.
Socialism is the expression of the new and
VIGOROUS man. 1t is not new thought, but
the application OF the old, The God of Jesus
n,s, OF new God, but the unfolding of the
o,d Religion was iii its infancy in the days of
Abraham, and only competent to gasp in the
aoys Of Iesus. We have reached the period of
further unfolding.
There were republics, and slaves within re-