The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-15
Woman Was
Tanned Last,
Says Durant

Woman is mans least domesti-
Gated animal and the last to be
civilized. Speech was the first step
in the the history OF man."
With the statement of these be-
liefs, DR.. Durant concluded his adj
dress before members of the Wom-
ems Department Club Wednesday
afternoon.
Other steps in mans history were
the discovery OF fire and light, max
ing man independent Of climate and
master of light; transition from
hunting to agriculture as mode Of
living; social organization and the
final step of education.
Durant looks toward the educated
youth Of America TO smash the oo-
htical corruption Of United States.
Universal education is in It's in
fancy, but Is becoming established,
he said. and he looks to the day that
democracy will not be defined as the
right OF all to be elected TO Office,
but the right OF all to make them
selves fit for Office, and that official
positions in the country will be
limited to those who have so made
themselves fit.
Nothing Is Lost
Following his talk, DR.. Durant
mentioned that a young man once
had asked him whether he believed
the beginning or end Of his lecture.
His reply was, IF one believes the
end without the beginning he is a
coward; II he believed the begin
ming without knowing the end, he
Is a fool"
The pessimism that is prevalent
in the country today" according to
DR.. Durant, "is not the result Of the
economic depression, but of some
thing more profound than loss OF
money-loss Of hope. Therein lies
the psychology OF depressions dur
ing past years.
THE question reoccurs: Has life
meaning? VIII our work lift man
up2 The answer is the most ter
rible problem in modern philosophy.
1.-THE entire social plane, the re-
Hgion Of America, rests in the be-
lief that nothing is lost or will be
lost.
Man Must Progress
The twentieth century has seen
the rise Of science, the accumula-
ton Of the greatest wealth the world
has known. 1t is impossible to doubt
the reality of progress.
But is progress the replacing of
field by cities; the building of office
buildings to replace cathedrals; re-
placing beauty with power, and art
with science?
we progress according to knowl-
edge, intellect, ideas, but we behave
according to instinct, feelings, emo
tons"
Durant believes that everything
has progressed, but man, and in re-
making the world, we forgot to re-
make ourselves.
He spoke Of history as a panorama
Of mortality. and the rise and fall
OF nations as a part of the theory
that everything that goes up must
come down.
Die 10 Garry On
America is building civilization
broader based than the world ever
has known. Her educational oppor-
tunities and resources are broader
based than civilization ever will
know, he said.
1T is largely true that everything
that begins must cease to be:
speech, race, planet, solar system.
Let us not pin our hopes on end
lessness," Durant said. at Is not
in the nature of things. AS long as
we think Of ourselves as separate
units, our pessimism will continue.
We must die that others may live,
90d carrv on with young, fresh
vigor that we have begun. When
we think Of ourselves as parts of a
whole, then there will be no death"
Genius and achievement live for
ever. He said real history Is not
the history OF the state, but the re-
cording Of steps from savagery to
civilization, Those advances, once
made, never are lost.