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condition analogous to that of the idiot is preposterous. "For 

 other .animals," says St. Thomas of Aquin, "nature has pre- 

 pared food, garments of fur, means of defense, such as teeth, 

 horns, and hoofs, or at least swiftness in flight. But man is so 

 constituted that, none of these things having been prepared 

 for him by nature, reason is given him in their stead, reason 

 by which through his handiwork he is enabled to prepare all 

 these things. . . . Moreover, in other animals there is inborn 

 a certain natural economy respecting those things which are 

 useful or hurtful, as the lamb by nature knows the wolf to be 

 its enemy. Some animals also by natural instinct are aware 

 of the medicinal properties of herbs and of other things which 

 are necessary for life. Man, however, has a natural knowledge 

 of these things which are necessary for life only in general, 

 as being able to arrive at the knowledge of the particular 

 necessities of human life by way of inference from general 

 principles." ("De regim. princ," 1. I, c. I.) As a matter of 

 fact, man is never found apart from evidences of his intelli- 

 gence. The Neanderthaloid race, with their solemn burials 

 and implements of bone and stone, exemplify this truth no 

 less than the palaeolithic artists of the Cave of Altamira. 



§ 5. The Edict of the American Association 



In the Cincinnati meeting (1923-1924) of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, a number of reso- 

 lutions were passed regarding the subject of evolution. True, 

 the session in which these resolutions were passed was but 

 sparsely attended, and packed, for the most part, with the 

 ultra-partisans of transf ormism. . Nevertheless, it is to be re- 

 gretted that the dignity of this eminent and distinguished 

 body was so unfittingly compromised by the fulmination of 

 rhetorical anathemas against W. J. Bryan and his Round Head 

 adherents. Among the resolutions, of which we have spoken, 

 the following dictatorial proclamation occurs: '^The evidences 

 in favor of the evolution of man are sufficient to convince 

 every scientist in the world" 



