Show why we behave e like human bei beings I 1 by B GEORGE DORSEY ph D LL D history does not repeat itself yn IN SO far as man has speeded living JL and to the extent that he has freed human beings he Is fulfilling his destiny but has lie he completed his mission ilas has he made tile the most of hla his opportunities Is he progressing Is he on the straight and shining ralls rails or la Is lie he in a maze a blind alley an api appendix pen to a celum which holds the threat of gangrene and destruction there are criteria for life to is there a blo logic criterion for progress note again that white while culture was tn evitable because roan man Is a nervous tx unarmored de fenceless selfish self centered opinionated inquisitive bullying cowardly talking marrying animal who requires shelter food and a mixed diet and has a big head and quick wits and Is handy with hla his hands the particular bents benta culture took were no more inevitable than are the particular words I 1 am now putting down on paper it if buddha and confucius moses and plato washington and lincoln were inevitable then I 1 can think of nothing less illuminating as a guide to human conduct than human history note too that history does not repeat itself why should it who wants it to repent repeat to tile the best of our knoell knof ll j edge nothing on tills planet repents repeats while the elements and the energies hange chinuge not at all or imperceptibly the fornis matter takes and the work energy performs do change the organic g lnla needs and hungers hangers inhere they drive man today as yesterday as in pre cambrino days das they drove ills his ancestors ce drove ilow how dv by a stopping stepping up ft a raising of the potential of the power As it a result the machine became more baor complicated but more highly inte grated its parts became larger but under better control it was capable of more refined work could vary its output forecast the future provide tor for unforeseen contingencies tills Is ere alive evolution rt it Is real it Is tangible its history can be read in tho the rock rock record can be measured in the cortex of the brain and can be seen in the nelds of waving saving grain and in the th flocks of sheep and the herds berds of cattle it was as in the direction of freedom what Is freedom no two dictionaries define it alike no two to generations donne it alike no ono one generation agrees as to who shall be free the framers of our magna charta of freedom went right on killing indians and breeding bleeding slaves we shall get lit alei insight into freedom from the law courts we ve must took look deeper can we find a biologic concept of freedom Is there n goal as lt it were to crent creative lve evolution our dizion Is so limited we know so little of life I 1 who shall say but we shall try all the cats dogs rats and guinea pigs martyred marty red in the name of science have hae died in vain and a all 11 the laboratories built to serve science scia acta are illusions inthe if the net result Is but ut a few human lives saved end and no light thrown on aliat hat it Is that Is saved and whether it Is worth saving intelligence Is vague we must give it reality it means to learn but every cery animal learns ameba abeba oyster fish groundhog the squirrel stores nuts for a wintry day the instinctive behavior of many animals Is remarkable hut but we can speak of the evolution of intelligent behavior and that Is s no mere figure of speech nor Is it without significance that with man and ad with man only we find human intelligence of all primate infants the he human infant alone learns human behavior why because it has a larger learning equipment more ways was of obeying impulses mp ulses a greater capacity to modify impulses in the light of experience man blan as no other animal does can delay his reactions whereby he ad justs usta himself to circumstances he thereby hereby gains a measure of control over his environment denied all other living beings such control Is biologic freedom the goal of creative evalu tion ion intelligence what tills this control c can a n lead to Is just t to 0 be understood der stood scientific intelligence may yet he be born freedom Is as yot ct only a goal and a long way oft off but progress toward freedom will speed up it Is 13 of the nature of living organ organisms tsing to grow by what they teed feed on and to limb climb by their own ovin steps the greater freedom the faster the paco pace toward the goal that Is jf it roan man Is really on the track trac kand and that we cannot know wo we do know that countless kinds of living organisms dropped from sight because they were on a bypath by bt path rut but assuming that roan man la Is on the road of freedom how can lie he keep going Is there anything in hla his nature which conditions pi progress ogress ns as there are hormones which re regulate 91 growth the human being that can learn no more hai parted with the only priceless possessions in human inheritance the men women or nations that harden in their mold get set in their ways crystil crystallize lize their opinions and land beliefs lle and swear by and live according to their routine habits babits such men women or nations are old senile aenlle dt cay Is nt at hand ban in them creative crea atie evolution u has ceased lo 10 function and they in their vain yearnings tor for immortality forget how they learned to behave like human beings und and how life itself in human beings renews its youth and speeds up the race for freedom at As a little child with an open mind ta by george A vot 07 |