The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-10

animals of tertiary time as the ichthyo-
saurians, marsupials and billed mammals
/ of secondary time had been swept away.
However much man may have Witness
| ed of this change, it certainly occurred
without his help. When he had become
strong. the entire, still monstrously large
| remnant of the tertiary world dweiled in
/ South Asia and in Africa. A small dis
tant remnam also lived in South Amer
/ ica-grotesque mammoth sloths and mann
moth armadiIlos. The latter evidently be-
came extinct early, and as we have evil
dence that man ate megatherium ana
slyptodon in prehistoric days, it is likely
! that he was the hangman Of this animal
world also.
In other places the battle was not so
/ easy For two thousand years and more
the African and Inoian tertiary animal
world with its elephants, rhinocerii, hip
popotamii, huge carnivora and manlike
monkeys such as gorilla and orang, con-
fronted even civilized humanity with IA
bles, the image Of the wild world that
ruled lands and threatened humanity.
But as early as Carthage man learned
to subdue the beast The Carthagian en-
!
terial of him. The iron Roman dragged
the jungle brutes into his arenas in arm
les. And when the musket was invented,
/ the final hour struck for this bit OF
/ primeval and ancestral life. The tertiary
world of giants went tumbling headlong
after the secondary world and culture
became the eXecutiOner Of a historical
decree.
But man had to do with another group
of animals The great force that drove
the tertiary mammals out of the north
continents. before man became strong.
was the ice. \ certain percentage OF
mammals not thus driven south consisted
of some that had adjusted themselves to
the cold So there came the red-wooled
mammoth. the furred rhinoceros. the cave
lion the musk OK and the reindeer.
This is the so-called dnuvial animal
world And man had to do directly with
it-man. whose plainest remnants show
that he lived on the edges Of the glaciers
of the ice period. and who perhaps had
to thank the stress of the ice-time for his
greatest early progress. such as the dis
covery Of the way TO kindle fire.
MAN ATE THE DILUVIAL WORLD.
Where is this diluvial world today?
Man has eaten it.
This-example of the vertebrates practic-
ally exhausts almost the whole problem
that arises between man and all other
manv-celled organisms. As forces on
earth besides the vertebrates only the in
sects demand consideration.
Man needs little from them. but they
harm him much So he is in open. steady
war Of destruction with them everywhere.
Its end is not doubtful
And so on There remains Of organisms
Of the land only the many-celled plant.
But man has not had 20 fight with the
plant He dwelied with il from carry
times as II it were a beloved younger
sister.
Immeasurahly more plant than the ami
NAL it has been changing through thous-
ands OF years under his hand into true.
ever-improving tool. The grass ripens in
10 corn for him. the creeper Of the pri-
meval forest bears grapes for him. the
rough. gusrled forest tree changes into a
fruit-hearer for him. When this has been
continued for stin more thousands Of
years. every blossom every fruit. every
/, treeforrn on earth viii be 80 thoroughly
. the work OF man that one can hardly call
, il a conquest" OF man any more The
plant will simply have been made part o.
the human world: far different achieve
ment from that Of destroying the mon
Sters.
. \ last look now, into the water There
in the depths still live whole families and
/ races-the prickie skins. the SEA stars
? spcnges. polypS worms and Others. al
represented by myriads OF individuals
, Without question the actual ma siery OF
, the deep sea by man is only in its be-
, ginning.
t BEGINNING To WIN THE SEA
J But it kesins so thoroughly that there