"WAR AS A FACTOR IN EVOLUTION."

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2921, 6 November 1916, Page 8

"WAR AS A FACTOR IN EVOLUTION."

"War as a,Factor in Evolution" was tho subject of an eloquent address delivered by Miss C. W. Christio to a largo audience at tho Theosophical Hall last evening. The lecturer .pictured tho unceasing strife and warfaro prevalent in every kingdom of nature, showing how through these plants, animals, individuals, nations, and races grew strong and wise. Sho oxplained that war cannot ceaso until humanity has learnt its lessons and removed its iauses, for war is but ■ tho result of greater though less evident horrors of peaco. She graphically described those, which sho said resulted primarily from the non-realisation of tho universal brotherhood of man. Tho present war, tlio turning point of this civilisation, was being waged with a ferocity inspired by the innate memory of past failures, notablo among these being that which rosultcd in the "destruction of the: grand civilisation of Atlantis, which met the fate of others that had misused their knowledge and power, becoming corrupt and selfish. It would decide whether our civilisation, too, would dio, to bo rebuilt only through centuries of toil, or would rise triumphant, carrying its hardly-won knowledge through to a magnificent period where war would be no more. That we would triumph was certain, but to what extent our civilisatidn would bo wholly s\icccssful depended largely upon its realisation of the universal brotherhood of man, tho key- 1 note of the non-race now being born.