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foeen invented. From him is descended the Pithecanthropus 

 alalus, the speechless primitive man. He could not be called 

 Pithecanthropus erectus, because scientists had already excluded 

 this from the list of man s direct ancestors. So Haeckel called 

 him the speechless primitive man ; but he too is an imaginary 

 being. Next to him we have the Homo stupidus, the stupid man 

 who is a very real creature, and from him at last we arrive at 

 the Homo sapiens. 



Such is the solemn and grandiose nonsense that 

 in the name of science was so long perpetrated 

 upon the world and was received with worshipful 

 credulity in our halls of learning by the men who 

 could not accept the authentic revelations of God 

 and the most rational doctrines of His Church. 

 But what then is the scientific evidence, certain 

 and incontrovertible, for the descent of man from 

 the ape? Expressed in one word, it is zero. 

 What the sparse scientific facts are on which these 

 theories are built we shall sufficiently indicate in 

 the following pages. The results we may briefly 

 anticipate in the words of Virchow spoken in his 

 Inaugural Address at the Wiesbaden Congress of 

 Naturalists, when he said of the study of pre 

 historic anthropology : 



&quot;Every positive advance which we have made 

 in that study removed us further than before from 

 any proof of evolution to be found there. Mai^ 

 has not descended from the ape, nor has any ape- 

 man existed.&quot; 



&quot;Wasmann, &quot;The Problem of Evolution,&quot; pp. 79, 80. 



