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TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \n Reproductions may not be made without permisslon from Columbia Unlversity Lbraries.              \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:          35mmREDUCTION RATIO:            9:1  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                   01/9   \nINITIALS:            \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                                    23328  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nThrough the President's Oftice2-1-2l0A CROWN of GOLD30℃ANDZA CROWN of THORNS2190  \nA Principle which has wreckedempires and seven times des-troyed the white mans'civilization.COPYRIGHTBy WM.GESFORD1925PRICE 50c  \n1af426航  \nREFACE  \n—  \nWhen men unite into social compact society isborn.Its first act is the fundamental the makingof a law to regulate products of industry in dis-tribution.The vital ones,food.clothing andshelter.Justice demands so far as that law is con-cerned that there should be no discrimination in it.But it does discriminate unjustly in that funda-mental rule of distribution,when it gives to theminers'gold a fixed price,at the mint of $20.00 perounce,and does not protect fundamentally otherproducts.This discrimination between productsfixes a like discrimination between men and there-by enacts fundamental injustices as the basis ofcivilization.This injustice as the first act ofsociety shows itself in the growth of the classesthe producer and the non-producer and when theybecome chronic they are known as the Merchantand the toiling masses.In the course of timewhen this condition reaches its climax the mer-chant wears the golden crown and reaps the profitsof industry,while the toiler wears a crown ofthorns and reaps a harvest of disappointment.  \nThis subject is discussed under the followingheads:  \nThe Philosophy of Evolution.  \nThe Evolution of Crime.  \nThe Evolution of the Jew.  \nThe Evolution of Society.  \nBy the Author,  \nWM.GESFORD,  \nSan Jose,California,19251  \nCHAPTER L.  \n## PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUTION\n\nIt has finally come to pass in the course ofevents when science has developed a new thoughtcalled the Philosophy of Evolution.  \nPhilosophy is the truth told regarding any onesubject in plain language.Evolution is the move-ment of the elements of the universe in obedianceto one universal law set to the music of eternalchange.Man as the intellectual being realizesthis change,and in his short and transitory lifeacross the earth from the cradle to the grave heis ever raising the question,whence came I andwhither am I going?When he has once raisedthe question he soons finds himself involved andentangled in the thoughts of his own origin,thepurpose of this life and his destiny in the time tocome.  \nBefore the age of science a solution of thesepersonal questions made no perceptible progressin the thoughts of the world.This is true be-cause that in the age of faith which precededscience the mind had no criticism of truth toguide it.In that age with such condition theocean of human thought was a stagnant pool,lifeless,tideless,and standing still,but a changecame by the event of 1492,which uncovered halfthe earth and with it a mental movement,a newvision of man and the universe a flowing,seeth-ing,restlessness of the mind in search of furtherhidden treasures of truth.  \nIn that age of faith the fixed popular concep-tion was that man and the universe did notalways exist,and that they were brought intobeing by creation,that there was somewhere inlimitless space a personal creator to perform theact,in whose likeness and character was calledthe God of the universe.But the unfortunatefact concerning.this theory or that age is thatmen were never able to agree as to the exactcharacter and likeness of such a Deity.Thisagreement divided all ma","cbCaihSagnlHts2X","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihSagnlHts2X","pdf",1589529,34,"English","# REFACE\n# PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUTION\n## The Age of 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