burg-; in Galizia was found the greater part of a carcass of a 

 rhinocerus preserved in oil and now in the museum at Lem- 

 berg". In these or other ways may nature hold our ancestors 

 in keeping' for us. 



Since what we find is purely accidental and it is impossi- 

 ble to search everywhere, we cannot wait to complete our 

 chain of evidence in this manner. 



Instead we should use the knowledge we already possess, 

 and which is herein outlined, to experiment in a direct way 

 and by artificial fecundation of the anthropoid apes with the 

 sperm of men to produce creatures which will resemble the 

 intermediate forms between anthropoid apes and men and com- 

 plete the series of facts we already possess relative to our 



ongm. 



This visible proof of the evolution of man from animals 

 will be understood by all and have a marked influence upon 

 human thought and social institutions. This influence will 

 only tend to develop and ennoble mankind because with the 

 discovery of truth will disappear the prejudices which now 

 characterize our civilization. 



Thus by going back into the past, shall we insure our 

 advancement in the future, and just as man has been evolved 

 from ape-like beings may we be enabled to produce a super- 

 man which will be as superior to us as we are to the proto- 

 man or Pithecanthropus erectus. 



* Read at the meeting of the Zoological Section, June, 1914. 



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