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stroy Christianity forever from the face of the 

 earth. To this end he shamelessly falsified science 

 and filled the gaps in man s ancestry with beings 

 his own imagination had created and which he 

 named, primitive gastrasadae, primitive amni- 

 otes, primitive promammals, primitive marsupi 

 als,&quot; etc. For a time this deception succeeded to 

 such an extent as to become a popular creed, an 

 application to man of what is known as the bio- 

 genetic law. 



It is no longer necessary to disprove HaeckePs 

 biogenetic law, though this for a time was the 

 gospel of supposed science in our schools and unii 

 versities and still continued to remain part of the 

 gospel of Socialism, and, unfortunately, of a large 

 number of sociologists. On this subject Menge 

 says: 



Professor Haeckel s theory that man passes through the same 

 stages as did the race, that is, first becomes a fish, then goes 

 on through the other forms, until he shows in his embryonic de 

 velopment every form through which his ancestors have passed, 

 is a theory which Professor Kellogg well says is now only a 

 skeleton on which to hang exceptions. It has also been since 

 said by another bio/ogist that there is a great want of logic in 

 saying that because a human being passes through a similar 

 stage as does the fish, that therefore the human must have been 

 a fish once upon a time, when all that should be said is that 

 the human and the fish pass through the same stage. 1 



The reason for honoring the human race by 

 placing the fish among its early progenitors was 

 the gill-like and fin-like appearance of a certain 



1 &quot;The Beginnings of Science,&quot; p. 148. 



