MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
is that if the theory of organic evolution is admitted, we 
are to consider man as ascending from some mammal of 
the Eocene period, not from any existing form of primate. 
The date of the parent stem, from which man and the 
other primates separated as branches, must be set back 
in time quite a million years. 
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