Show THE LAW I 1 u ug ested byl by Listening ing to 1 a red mot hot argument BY J F r GIBBS the law of evolution so contemptuously rejected because it was seemingly Jn in conflict with the the Bible tiie the orles ories of creation is today almost universally ver sally accepted by educated men and women and is as much a part pat of the cury culum of every reputable university as is geometry but it is not the law t 4 of evolution thit that so immediately concerns us as agthe law of life embraced in in and which constitutes so vital a part of evolution billions of forms of life daily perish that other form may continue to exist other billions perish because of their I 1 unfitness to live while the stronger and more mode aggressive survive and prorogate their species it at is tle the law of life wisely decreed by nature or natures N agures god as the basic part of the law of progresso sSt and notwithstanding some modifications called reason which distinguishes human beings from lower forms of life and which has been the slow unfolding of instinct the law of life as manifest among sentient beings is precisely that so strikingly manifest in the struggle for life among the lower animals the extreme manifestation of the law of life by sentient son tient beings is called greed some four or five years ago the writer with several sever al companions was camping at birch springs in gold run canyon A large colony of squirrels had preempted the locality and were very timid during leisure moments the writer by means of crumbs of bread succeeded in taming the colony it was the law of life following lines of least resistance resi stence in the pursuit of subsistence they became so unafraid that they climbed into our laps jumped to the table dined with us and frequently disputed possession one old fellow doubtless the patriarch of the colony large and powerful who had become gray and morose during a score acdore or so of nut gathering seasons repudiated our invitations to approach nearer than ihan five or six feet helas he was feared if not hated by his descendants he discriminated between large and small crumbs of bread and when he saw members of his family rushing pell mell for a choice crumb one ortho leaps landed him in the midst of his relatives with vicious spite and growls meantime striking right and left with his oceh open hands lie he seized the crumb and tucked it into int q one of hia pockets pocket st it was an interesting study of the universal law of life abild ana we pampered the old chap until his pockets were full to td overflowing in g when he fan ran to his safety dapos ds posit it somewhere in the hillside deposited his earnings and riat umed for more he was the financier of his colony a very cap captain tain of squirrel industry the law of life is inherent in every living thing it was implanted by nature it is fixed and eternal and strange as at first thought it may inay appear the law as herein dimly defined is also the law of progress among reasoning beings to many of us the taw law seems seema infinitely cruel but human buman laws cannot modify it I 1 until tuch such time as the working out of I 1 the thelah 1 v compello com aa a means of self defense a more equitable distribution of the once free ble blessings blevings Aings of nature the beautiful vision of the universal brotherhood af man will not materialize until the inexorable law of life forces it upon us sine t I 1 the first faint dawn of speech the of life hag as forced upon us the practice of community life and through absolutely unknown and countless centuries community life ha has slightly enlarged the jhb re of that ahat quality of love lovd and solicitude so freely bestowed by the mother on an her offspring off spring no bo characteristic of both quadrupeds and bipeds until human beings appear ta sympathize with tho the misfortune ft of those not of their kith nd kin even the sires among the biped 4 are beginning bome of them to ta take a little interest in their children in their sons there were some of us who were beginning to io elleve believe that the law of life was wag more swiftly forcing apon us the divine ian la of love and s sympathy pathy for our less fortunate fellow men mem many of us began bega n drek dreaming ning of a universal brotherhood of me the vision ot ol it seemed to be lyl lying ng lo 10 low on the eastern horizon hori aon and surrounding it was the dim halo of the coming perfect man without warning var ning the A vani a sea bea of crimson anufrom jhb re camb to thour ofir ears eara at first lut increasing volume ay iy the omin 0 us of the bugle To Arms the heavy tramp of millions urged forward by the law of life to slay their fellow men and millions of those who marched to the most sanguinary battle fields of all time were but recently clamoring for the universal brotherhood of men I 1 what a mockery to our erstwhile ersh while visions visions inspired by the hope that the law of life was moving forward with increasing momentum our hope was based on the present keen and ever increasing struggle for subsistence and on bur almost worldwide interdependence inter dependence for the necessities of life we believed that the law of life had forced up as a means of subsistence to the dawn of co ive commonwealths and ev to worldwide world wide peace and operation cooperation co the pressure oi of population on the means of subsistence will ultimately bof force c e us in into to the unive universal iral brotherhood of men those who deny the possibility of the realization 61 that dream aro are hopelessly and criminally ignorant of the silent inexorable forces of nature that are ever unconsciously im impelling us onward to fro the objective point of the law of lite life the european war may heck check the movement ment or it may accelerate it the good father who is believed to be guiding the destinies of the human family knovs wh what atkind kind of political Inaus industrial tHal and bobial forces r ces wil wilt arise from aiom the flame and smoke of battle of one thing we iare positively cirtain certain that in in completa harmony with the law of eyolf tiong those forces that do survive we ib pre present nt cataclysm will jae the fittest to survive i any cli cir the of th the dream of the universal brotherhood of men i ia s perhaps centuries distant the vacant lands of the earth must mast be peopled people d as eventually they will be ty py gov ermant aid and the pressure of pop on the means of subsistence must become acute acito before the ahe dream is realized meantime the piff patient lent student of matual law will wa batih tr eh with everin ever in creasi er easing ng interest the slow alow working out in our country ot of that ec economic departure cd banea canea aa owneta ownership ip 0 01 public 1 |