THE LINEAGE OF MAN 



remote "common ancestor" of perhaps ten million years 

 ago was a tailless, partly tree-living, pro-anthropoid, in many 

 respects far more like a young female chimpanzee than like 

 a modern white man. 



Conclusion 



The natural egotism of man made him easily credulous 

 pi the story that the first man, although made from the 

 dust of the ground, was also created perfect in the image 

 of God. The knowledge that man has struggled upward 

 to his present estate from less intelligent animals is still 

 practically denied to the majority of mankind. 



The gospel of evolution as outlined above is not the 

 writer's invention ; it has not been built up, like early systems 

 of religion, in an endeavor to propitiate the gods without; 

 it is simply a very condensed outline of what Nature is 

 gradually revealing to those who carefully examine her 

 records. When man fully realizes what he has come from 

 and the long, slow steps by which he has reached his present 

 condition, he will be better able to apply intelligent measures 

 toward correcting his infirmities and toward guiding his 

 evolution along profitable paths in the future. One can do 

 no better than quote the noble words of Charles Darwin: 



We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man, 

 with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the 

 most debased; with benevolence which extends not only to other 

 men but to the humblest living creature; with his god-like intellect, 

 which has penetrated into the^ movements and constitution of the 

 solar system — with all these exalted powers — man still bears in his 

 bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. 



REFERENCES 



Barrell, Joseph. Rhythms and the Measurements of Geologic 

 Time. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., Vol. 28, pp. 745-904, Pis. 

 43-46. December 4, 1917. 



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