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Magnon men were superior, had larger brains and keener minds, and thus they could and did slaughter their competi tors in the most wanton way. It must have “ advanced” the Cro-Magnbns vastly to engage in such Schrecklichkeit! Their morals must have been greatly improved! Natur ally it would make them much more refined, loving and kind! If they had any religion, their murderous treatment of their weaker fellows, who really had prior possession of the land, must have improved it greatly and carried it far along the altruistic highway! Yet that is the claim of the evolutionists— the fittest survive through the killing off process! Nearly all the evolutionists (there are a few exceptions, like J. Arthur Thompson and William Patten) represent the human race as having made all its advancement through contest, war and bloodshed. Read their writings and be convinced. Look at the pictures they draw, and note that their supposed primitive people are always represented as fighting one another or engaged in a gory conflict with the wild beasts around them. To make good my assertion, I shall quote from Dr. Osborn (see an article in McClure's Magazine, March, 1923), who says of the Piltdown man (the “ Dawn Man” of Evolution) : “ Brute strength undoubt edly ruled him, as with the animals. It was a case of the 'survival of the fittest— every Individual for himself. . . . His must have been a constant fight for life, not only against the elements, but against the animals— the extinct cave bear, the cave lion, the cave hyena, the wooly rhinoce ros, and the mammoth— all, like himself, extinct.” Just so! That is the evolutionary way by which the human family climbed up the ladder of progress! Note, too, that Osborn explicitly declares, “ It was a case of the survival of the fittest— every Individual for himself.” And he and his school actually believe that this fierce and selfish struggle brought forth the social altruism of today! Was Christ mistaken then, when He said, “ Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?” We do not believe it. He knew better than the evolutionists, for He said, “ A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit.” No; it is contrary to all the laws of the universe that a selfish struggle would or could result in the relljgion of love and good will. The problem of war is a troublesome one. No doubt some wats have been justifiable; wars of defense against bar barous invasion. It is hard to see what else could have been done to preserve civilization when the Mohammedan hosts invaded Europe in both the east and the west. But who will say that war in general has been the chief cause of human progress? Sometimes in fact, it has resulted in the victory of the rude, savage and uncultured. As a rule, wars have set the race on the backward track. The times of peace, when religion, art and all the fine things of life could be cultivated, have been the eras of greatest progress in the history of the human race. In war the best and strongest must go to the front to be mangled by shot and shell, while many of the weaker individuals are left to sur vive. Too often, too, the wounded and broken and diseased are brought back from the battle-field to be a burden on the public. And yet the majority of the evolutionists hold that war— the struggle for existence— has been the chief means of the “ progressive evolution” of the human race! It is a crude and shameful doctrine. And if such a way of carnage brought man up from the beast to the man, why should it not continue to be the effective method of advancement? What would change t’*.e regime of nature from the selfish to the unselfish, from the vindictive to the kind and forgiv ing, from the warlike to the peaceful? What would cause
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