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beasts, etc. Purely scientific and philosophical 

 considerations determined my decisions. 



Finally, Dr. Friedenthal recurred to his con 

 viction that, in classing men with apes, he had done 

 nothing which could offend the susceptibilities of 

 a layman or of a religious person. He pointed out 

 that the pious Linnaeus, who has never been accused 

 of being anything but a good Christian, put man 

 into the same class as apes. 



The pious Linnaeus seems not to have 

 classed man with apes, for he calls him Homo 

 sapiens, not Simia sapiens. 



Once more I wish to say clearly that Dr. 

 Friedenthal by no means deserves to be called 

 an atheist because he thinks that man, with 

 respect to his body, belongs in the same systematic 

 order as apes. Moreover, he expressed himself 

 more correctly than any of the other speakers, 

 on the subject of the mental difference be 

 tween man and beasts. 



Dr. Friedenthal concluded his speech by 

 uttering another protest against confusing 

 scientific problems with religious questions. 

 I thoroughly agree with him on this point, 

 and, above all, I think that a wrong use of 

 scientific results is made, when they are em 

 ployed as weapons against Christianity, after 

 the fashion of Monism under Haeckel s 

 guidance. 



