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explicit argument on which the final positive 

 dogma of "a series of ancestors connecting the 

 oldest anthropoid ape with man," is ultimately 

 based. The few isolated facts of science can 

 establish no such definite and absolute conclusion. 

 The great biologist Reinke, whose authority no 

 one can challenge, thus disposes of the question: 



We merely have dust thrown in our eyes when we read in 

 a widely circulated book by Ernst Haeckel ("The Riddle of the 

 Universe") the following words: "That man is immediately 

 descended from the apes, and more remotely from a long line 

 of lower vertebrates, remains established as an undoubted 

 historic fact, fraught with important consequences." It is ab- 

 surd to speak of anything as a fact when experience lends no 

 support to it.* 



Nowhere can the happy verses of Mr. Arthur 

 Guiterman find a better application than in de- 

 scribing the methods by which the propaganda 

 of materialistic evolution, especially in regard 

 to the supposed descent of man from the ape, has 

 been sedulously carried on. There would have 

 been no need whatsoever of writing the following 

 rules for Haeckel and his class of propagandists, 

 so perfectly were they carried out by them to the 

 very letter: 



When the situation clamors for a pardonable lie, 



Please begin your observations with, "As No One Will 



Deny." 



With a modest little, bashful little effort to deceive, 

 Kindly use the introduction, "We Have Reason to Believe." 



*"Haeckel's 'Monism and Its Supporters,'" p. 6; Wasmann, 

 op. cit., pp. 80, 81. Note. 



