Evening star., 1925-07-28

survive, and complains that we civ
ilized men do our utmost to. check
the process of elimination How in
human such a doctrine as this! He
thinks it injurious to build aSymmS
for the imbecile, the MANNED and the
sick, or to care for the poor.
All of the sympathetic activities of
civilized society are condemned be-
cause they enable the weak members
to propagate their kind. Then he
drags mankind down to the level of
the brute, and compares the freedom
gwen to man unfavorably with the
restraint that we put on barnyard
| beasts
Let no one think that this accep-
tance of barbariSm as the basic prin-
ciple of evolution died with Darwin.
Within three years a book has appear
ed whose author is even more frankly
brutal than Darwin. The book is en-
titled The New Decalogue of Science
and has attracted wide attention. One
OF our most reputable magazines has
rescently printed an article by him
defining the religion of a scientist. In
his preface he acknowledges indebted
ness to 21 prominent scientists and
educators, nearly all of them doctors
and professors One of them, who has
recently been elevated to the head of
great State university, read the
manuscript over twice and made
many invaluable suggestions
The author describes NietZSche who,
according to Mr.. Darrow. made muir
derer out of Babe Leopold as the
braveSt soul since Jesus He admits
that Nietzsche was 'sloriously wrong,
not certainly. but perhaps in many
details of technical Knowledge but
oil
ously right in his fearless question
ing of the universe and of his own
soul +"
Jungle Morals Best"
I'm another place the author says
most of our morals today are jungle
products and then he affirms that 1T
would be safer, biologically, if they
were more so now After these two
samples of his views you will not be
surprised when l read you the follow
ing tsee page 34)
Evolution is a bloody business, but
civilization tries to make il a pink tea.
Barbarism is the only process by which
man has ever organically progressed.
and civilization is the only process by
which he has ever organically de-
clined. Civilization is the most dan
gerous enterprise upon which man
y
out of the bloody, brutal, but benef-
icent hand of natural selection you
place him at once in the soft, per
fumed, daintily gloved. but far more
dangerous hand of artificial selection.
And, unless you call science to your
aid and make this artificial selection
as efficient as the rude methods of
nature, you bungle the whole task
This aspect of evolution may
amaze some of the ministers who have
not been admitted to the inner circle
of the iconoclasts whose theories men
ace all the ideals of civilized society
Do these ministers know that 'evolu-
ton is a bloody business" Do they
know that civilization is the only
process by which man has ever or
ganically declined" Do they know
that the bloody, brutal hand of nat
ural selection is 'beneficent' and that
the artificial selection found in civil
ization is 'dangerous?' What shall
we think of the distinguished educat-
Crs and scientists who read the manu-
script before publication and did not
protest against this pagan doctrine?
ITO show that this is a worldwide
matter, I now quote from book