Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1915 — NATURE KEEPS HER SECRETS [ARTICLE]

NATURE KEEPS HER SECRETS

interesting How the Progress of Evolution Went On Through the Centuries. No generation can discern its evolutionary trend and bearing upon Its own or any other race. Evolution is always an unconscious process to the participants therein. The remnant of despised Israelites fleeing to the desert from the tyranny of Egypt looked hopefully toward a promised land Which would be walled in from the outside heathen by separating rites and strictest regulations. The wandering Jew did not suspect that his grandest prerogative was to be, not the exclusive ownership of an earthly paradise, but the transmission of his monotheistic conception of the deity to alien races until finally it should encompass the globe. When the African savage crossed an unknown sea, mourning his dusky brood, his sun-baked hut, the idea could never have entered his thick skull that a cruel wrong to himself and his countrymen would be overruled In the end by the benefits of a civilisation attainable in no other way.