Editorial November 29, 1947 Issue

FACTS AND FOSSILS

Editor

A newspaper headline reads, "Man's Origin Sought in Caves of Africa." The news item which follows tells of a group of natural scientists who are now in South Africa hoping that through excavation there in a very old geological formation they may find, among the fossils, human bones which will prove that, contemporary with the laying down of the fossils a million years ago, there lived a mammal which walked on two feet—not on four—and would qualify as the ancestor of modern men.

Perhaps this research among the million-year-old fossils may add something of interest to the store of human knowledge, but it cannot provide any information concerning man and his origin that will help any of us to work out solutions to the problems of everyday life in our homes, in our businesses, and in society. One must look elsewhere than to the fossil beds of Africa for that.

What all men need to improve their lot is better thoughts. If there is an unhappy home, it is thoughts of love, consideration, and mutual good will that provide the antidote. If there is a sick body or distraught mind, the thoughts which reveal the real being of man as spiritual, harmonious, and unafflictable are the one sure cure. We fully solve the problems resulting from human ignorance only as we dissolve them with intelligent, enlightening ideas. Where can these problem-solving ideas be found?

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