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national revolution. And whenever a successful com- 

 mercial man sends his child to these centres of 

 education, as they now exist, he takes the first step 

 towards mental degeneration, for we have seen that 

 the results of much of this education is educated 

 ignorance, 1 hypocrisy, and conventional lies. No, the 



that all human embryos, those of nobles as well as commoners, 

 are scarcely distinguishable from the tailed embryos of dogs and 

 other mammals during the first two months of development ? " 

 (" The History of Creation," Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 1892, vol. L 

 pp. 335-837.) 



1 " I weigh my words well when I assert, that the man who should 

 know the true history of the bit of chalk which every carpenter carries 

 about in his breeches-pocket, though ignorant of all other history, is 

 likely, if he will think his knowledge out to its ultimate results, to 

 have a truer, and therefore a better, conception of this wonderful 

 universe, and of man's relation to it, than the most learned student 

 who is deep-read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of 

 Nature." ("Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews," T. H. Huxley, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., 1893, p. 153.) 



" It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that 

 the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of 

 general education. Indeed, our so-called ' educated classes ' are to 

 this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and 

 the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought 

 to light, 



In corroboration of this most astounding fact, I will only mention 

 that most ' educated people ' do not even know that each human 

 individual is developed from an egg, and that this egg is a simple cell, 

 like that of any animal or plant. They are also ignorant of the fact 

 that, in the development of this egg, an organism is first formed 

 which is entirely different from the fully developed human body, to 

 which it bears no trace of resemblance. The majority of ' educated 

 people ' have never seen such a human germ, or embryo, in the early 

 stages of development, nor are they aware that it is not at all different 

 from those of other animals. They do not know that, at a certain 

 period, this embryo has essentially the anatomical structure of a 



