The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-04

result of the first blush of the theory of evo
ton To this day there thousands who conside
revolution and progress" being interchangeable
terms.
But nothing could be a greater falacy than this Eve
luton may just well moving backward" "for
ward" There is nothing in the things guar
antee that progress will be made. Such notion is moth
ing but modern form of the old theological dogma
predestinaton and fatalism. Evolution is the
describe the that living beings change to
their environments which also constantly changing
If determining factor in the living conditions make 70
rerogresson the living species must respond to 1t willy
nlly Were power to cut off present food
ply ninety cent should find in generation that we
had slipped the level cannibalistic
tors.
Progress the fruit alone of ceaseless vigilance and
continuous effort. We like boatmen rowing up
stream; the moment We lie down we begin
slip back The power of gravitation takes hold of
and decay sets in
This tendency society to retrograde the moment
struggle is of the astonishing and
resting phenomena in world 1t seems that each
generation, each individual in its beginning take
up the conquest of and the planet. Aftel
the Indian youth completed high school
and gotten out from under the grip and influence o
his teachers he goes back the wigwam and et
his culture" fall him like a cloak When the slave
loses his hope freedom he succumbs his fate and
becoves slave in spirit. Robert Hunter has clearly
shown that the dividing line between and
stricken is that the former have stopped strug
Cling and yielded to the grip of social gravitaton whi
the latter still keep their and fight agead. The
people Of Israel the feshpots Egypt aft
Moses had gotten them away from Pharaoh because
they had long before the will struggle and hat
become merely passive and inert.
To say that evolving is by say that
getting ahead. 1t may that getting
behind Evolution reveals the path along which
progress be made but leaves to do pro
crossing There is way by of which can
into the promised except struggle through
In the whole concept evolution it applies
to humanity, the important of all factors b.
all odds is just this that while evolution the low
orders of life be carried in blind, stupid
wasefu fashion, with 1t has under the contro
alone gives the lie
les concerning mans own development which based
on animal development Man is animal in the
that he has physiology but he is certainly
animal in any phychic social And neither can
say that human evolution be of
and natures laws. Through the of intelligence
able to accomplish easily and brief time what
ture worked with infinite labor through stretch
es Of time and with extreme wastefuness In the
way also able to reduce the chances of failure
in development to minimum For whereas nature
seems to move like blind man, feeling her way from
point to point and almost liable miss hit her
path able to look before and AFTER tc
select line of advance and consciously
select the which will to achieve ends.
If people will the clutches of that in
evtabe gravtation, that downward pull which sezes
the nation that to strive dedicate
selves to a ceasng struggle to a ending
climb Eternal liberty is the price of we'll
Of liberty Reasoning from adequate and thorough
V dgesed knowledge Of present conditions and factors
learn be able to take the hint which those
conditions offer the of future
Coupled with this there must also adequate
knowledge and understanding Of the instruments and
needed by such advance and what of
these necessary instruments and forces available
Overriding this then the will ceaseless
vigilance and struggle, the determined effort push
at any price, the willingness to cut off hand,
pluck If it hnders the readiness sacrifice
that which is dearest to if need be- stabest
appearing and most ancient institutions if demanded
all while through all and in ALL the consciousness that
must forever struggle in reconquest and that single
relapse is liable to cost the loss of all hard
gains. We push ourselves and society up steep;
and any lazy moment, temporary giving any
mentary surrender, may the loss and wreckage
all.
eff time alters things to the worse and wisdom and
shall alter them to the better, what shall
end be-"