DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 6, 29 March 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

EVOLUTION NOW (Copyright, 1921.) -jjijH. J)R- CHESTER STOCK, a noted paleontologist of the California Institute of Technology, said the other day in a lecture: ““The history of the evolution of man to the present day is a very small chapter in the history of the earth’s development as a whole. The entire evolutionary process is going on at the present time as in the past, and it is only logical to assume that it will continue and that modern man represents only one small stage in the great process through the past to the greater growth of the future.” A point that many people forget is tnat evolution is not a thing of the future and it is not exclusively of to-day, but it is going on now. Perhaps mankind of the year three thousand will differ as much from us as we do from the anthropoid apes. Just what mankind will be in the remote future is an interesting subject of speculation. Mr. Wells has indulged his inventive faculty on this point. It is rational to suppose that man may practically discard clothing, that almost all drudgery will be performed by machinery, that man’s memory will be trained to a prodigious degree, and that there will be some sort of unified religious effort which will take the place of the present-day sectarian endeavours. About these and other subjects, however, any s free to speculate. The main thing to remember is that we are now uz rgoing a stage in evolution and that the process has not ceased. It i i imply so slow that it seems stationary.

TO-MORROW—Yesterday's Good is To-day’s Evil.