The meaning of evolution
By: by Samuel Christian Schmucker.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1913
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Evolution
Description: Ever since men have been able to think they must have puzzled out for themselves some way of accounting for their own beginnings. Every savage tribe with whom we have any intimate acquaintance has some story that accounts for the origin of the tribe at least, and often for the beginning of the world. These stories are handed down from generation to generation and are scarcely questioned in the thought of most men. In early Greece there was a succession of men whom the world calls philosophers.