EVOLUTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2928, 21 April 1891, Page 4

EVOLUTION.

So:.— Darwin's |jiiiiiit'.»e man of a bil- [!., ,',.• v.ai-i '..ii'ihl only have had "in uaiiio e.'i.'u! i have been debt! uctivene:-.: I,i lii.r iiKiuner will the far elf man of a billion years hence also have only onbump and that bump will he vcneiati'.ii In that future time men \\ ill be all Urn socialists (not sham one::;, men will lie so because men will not be able to help it In that far oil time -iieii's nature will be adapted and suitable to political socialism. So high am! holy will men's idea* then he that every phase ol life in one ;ind all will be in direct eonll'adiclioii to that which now is. Then there will k no submerged truth, because as there will lie no hump of acquisitiveness all will be for 'dving instead of as now when all is for taking. Then there will be no legal ceremony'of marriage, because then men and women will be so full of moral truth that wheu two agree to become one and all to the other, such turpitude as getting tired of one another and being unIriietoone another will not exist, and that from the fact that the nature of both v>ill be so Codlike that such derogatory nk is could not become thought.-; even. In these far off times there will be no lawyers, because men will not need (d make wills. The children will be just to one another without being tied' liown to be so ; there will also be no policemen, because as there will he no bump of eoaibalivenoss, there will be no litlhting and quarrelling, anil last, though not least, t.neie v. ill be no town '.ouelatiou trying to r/o the people of the country, because men's minds will •!e-n he SO clear and logical that prill-i-ip;. .-i will then he, tlie guiding rule, and not aa now ■- peisonai bcio-lii;. Men will then ■"< e ai neutral men now see. In these far off times there will be no robbing land-tax In lob the landowners, and so let fee town people yo free of taxation. What will then be v/ill be a property-tax, which will rickido pioperty of all sorts and conditions. Vulgarly spoakin,', nun will then see beyond their own nose. Av Editor, it would be a waste of eueivv lor me to write about what man v.'aa m Ids primitive state, or what he will be in tir-far o/r future if it was not necessary ten' mi! to ;lo so in order to get, at the present. I forgot how many bumps a man has at present; perhaps it is twentyfour. Man has good bumps as well as e.-id ones. The billion of years has so ..v.- evolved man that he is not now all bad, but it is a mixture of cood and bad. r\,l i e-ctallCe, lie IMS s.l Id' ho- II evolved that he knows what is right •yd wrong. provi >o.| iha' wh-t is

correctly, it he id personally interested he cannot judo,; what ia light and what is wiun-r, fur hi i personal interest overwhelms" his ica-aci. And yet, men will areue f.n- f.i'i-ilisin. Socialism will lie R (wd when man U adapt, d so as t.i become a Socialist. As mat: now is tu have socialism would he putt in;; the cut heforc tin' horse. In that ease, the cart anil tilt; hoisc could not c,ct alone, because the horse is not adapted to ;>nsh —his nature is to draw. The world now could not '/< t along with soc-.tilNm, because man is not adapted, for socialism would requite man to be perfect; us yet he is very imperfect. Mr Kditor, in this imperfect state of man, what is wanted is a balance of power. When I wan a boy in Scotland wo then had what I think was a, balance of pow'-'r. Every man who had to pay £10 for rent, or had a freehold equivalent for it, had a vote, i; think mat franchise was about perfect, because under it there could be no class legislation; luxitr that franchise both parties were pretty evenly balanced, and the one class could not dominate the other. —Yours truly, HAKAI'KI'K.