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earliest pre-historic days, show that : &quot;Not an evo 

 lution but a degeneration has been going on for 

 countless ages, and what we see in the buried re 

 mains no less than in the jungles of the Far East 

 is not the gradual rise from a semi-simean or a 

 pithecoid type, but on the contrary a progressive 

 deterioration from an ideal, pre-Australian, pre- 

 Neanderthal form of high-brow features, a cast 

 of man almost European in his appearance.&quot; 4 As 

 specific evidence are cited the facts that the negrito 

 is less simean than the Australian; the negrillo, 

 than the modern African; the primitive Indones 

 ian, than the modern Malayan; the p re-Mongolian 

 Ai no, than the modern Japanese. Yet these 

 &quot;primitive&quot; races themselves have fallen from a 

 higher state. We have already alluded to the 

 conviction that was forcing itself even upon Her 

 bert Spencer s mind, that most, if not all, the 

 savage races of today are degenerates from a 

 superior stage of culture. 



The summary conclusion which history inevi 

 tably leads us to form is that primitive man was 

 able to develop his material civilization in the 

 course of time only became he did not begin as a 

 savage, while the present savage cannot rise to 

 civilization unaided, and through all the course of 

 history has never been known to do so, simply be 

 cause he is a savage, which primitive man was not 

 and, morally speaking, could not have been. Had 



*Philo Laos Mills, &quot;Creation Versus Evolution,&quot; p. 10. 



