The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-08-16

teresting to me than that. Of course,
l am interested in ali this, but Dar-
win takes up i matter that touches
me deeply. He tells how we men
came to have brains superior to the
women. Do you know how we came
to have these superior brains? Oar
win tells all about it.
He says that when our ancestors
were brutes, the males fought for the
females and they fought so hard that
this struggle increased the brain pow
er in the males and this increased the
brain power descended to the males
lust to the males. Even if we can
not prove that we have these superb
or brains, it is nice to know how we
came to have them.
"But don't think that Darwin de-
voted all his time to us men. He
showed how the females did their
part. The getting of this superior
brain power is not so important as
getting rid of the hair. There was
time when all the animals had hair,
and the question that bothered Dar-
win most was how hairy animal was
transformed into a hairless man. He
could not explain it by natural selec-
ton, because the less hair man had,
the less able he was to protect HIM
self against the weather. He laid it
to the selection of the males by the
females. He said the hair was bred
off by the females preferring the
males with the least hair. Of course,
it required ages but that is one ad
vantage the evolutionist has If you
say that a certain thing could not
be done in thousand years, he says:
Take million years-a billion; take
all the time you want He dissolves
opposition in the midst CT the ages.
"But why did he not think that
maybe all the females would not agree
in such a preference? If no two wo-
when can agree as to hat how could
the female brutes all agree ir so i'm
practicable a thing as breeding the.
hair off? And if that was so univer-,
sal a taste back there as to account
for + e breeding off of the hair, would
you not suppose that that taste would
persist" as the evolutionists say, and
that we would notice it in women to-
day-so that bald headed men would
have a greater advantage than they
have?
"And has it not occurred to you
that it might be difficult, if not i'm
possible, for US men to get these
brains we have by the males select:
ing the females, if, at the same time,
the females were selecting the males?
Gould they both select at once, or
did they alternate and make brains
for little while and then decrease
hair for a little while.
81 am telling you what Darwin
says. He says that this argument
,about breeding off the hair was crit
.icized more severely than anything
else he said, which proves that there
were people in those days, as we'll as
Etoday, with common sense. Yet this
is what we find in doctrine that
Everybody believes
"This doctrine Of evolution leads
you into the widest of speculation.
The Arabian Nights have nothing to
compare with the guesses of scien-
fists. Science can do anything when
it builds on facts. 1t gives US rules
lor the use of electricity and steam
and gas. It tells us about the fertil-
ity of the soil and the rotation OF
crops, but it is dealing with facts.
When scientist goes to guessing ne
is no better than any other guesser.
If we want fiction it would be better
to hire a crippled girl who can not
work to read Grimm's fairy tales to
students than to have them taught
the fiction of evolution.
"What is the result of Darwln's s
theory? What would you suppose
would be the result? Here is boy
reared in a Christian home, learning
the first child's prayer and then the
Lords prayer; he talks to God, asks
for daily bread, pleads for forgive
ness Of sins and desires to be deliver
ed from evil. He reads the Bible and
finds that the heavenly Father is more
than willing to give good gifts to His