Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-02-17 | Page 3 | Decalogue of Science Has Strong Appeal

I Decalogue of Science Has V Strong Appeal Needs 0 of Civilization Clearly Stated in New Book by Albert E. E Wiggam By HERBERT HUBBARD V Everybody more or less in the Christian world worl is familiar with the Decalogue Some of ot us perhaps perhaps per per- haps are not as consistent as we wo might be in the observance e of its precepts and it Is doubtful as to just how many of us us if ask asked d to give tho sixth commandment in its exact phraseology could do so but In a general way we all are conVersant conversant con con- versant with Its substance But now now have we ten new commandments commandments com com- a tI decalogue of ot biology auxiliary to those laid down by Moses stated to US us by Albert Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Wiggam in his newest volume The New Decalogue of Science The book is written in the form of an epIstle addressed to His Excellency Excellency Excel Excel- lency the Statesman Executive Mansion 1 an hypothetical Individual Individual ual personifying the statesman n of ot all aU time and gives in concise and trenchant language the biological course of action which the human race must pursue if It it is to survive Mr Wiggam's arraignment of ot so society society society so- so Is remarkable alike for its In Insight Insight In- In sight and soundness of ot view and for its pithy concentration o of the whole velocity of evolution upon the fundamental problems of an this book he gives what amounts to a marvelous summing up of or the whole case of ot human progress against all the forces that would arrest it The book deals brilliantly brilliant brilliant- ly with the central Issues of ot our generation the generation the social use and moral moral moral mo mo- ral control of the new v knowledge I that has been thrown up in the tho fields of the living sciences of or bi biology biology biology bi- bi psychology and anthropology I it In Mr l Wigwam Vig am tales takes the man manin In the street on a tour of the laboratories laboratories labor labor- atones of life and evolution and explains in plain language what a fascinating and human thi thing g modem modern modern mod mod- I em ern sc science ence is The book forms In essence a biological summary a scientific survey of the progress made by mankind during the years in which the evolution of the race has been deemed a thing worthy of ot study and lays lars down a set of ot rules which in itt the opinion of the aut author or must needs be obeyed if it the genus homo horno is to maintain his position as as' an enlightened being In addition ItIs it itIs itis 1 is a splendid statement of one of the greatest needs need of modern civilization civil civil- a a need so great find urgent I th that t unless the warning warning- Mr Wiggam Wiggam Wig Wig- gam gam utters is heeded by our sta statesmen statesmen states states- esmen es- es men educators and people In general general general gen gen- eral it will mean the decline of ot civilization elv- elv tion and its ultimate downfall The Tho Merrill Bobbs company In In-