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own poor selves, who in many ways appear to be 

 the degenerate descendants of such a sire. And 

 yet Professor Elliott elsewhere makes statements, 

 that are more conservative than those of many 

 another writer upon this subject. 



So the first page of social history is written. 

 On such a basis the philosophy of Socialism, of 

 much of our modern sociology, and of "ethical" 

 education in the rationalistic class-room is built. 

 For the convenience of those who may wish to 

 climb the ancestral family tree of the human race 

 the figure is well chosen the great high priest 

 of this phase of materialistic evolution, Ernest 

 Haeckel himself, has pointed out the trunk they 

 must ascend: the direct central line consisting of 

 half-apes, true apes, and imaginary apes from 

 which we are supposed to have evolved. For 

 forty years he labored at this "Pedigree of the 

 Primates" whose genealogy is given by him down 

 to the last missing link. 13 Its nature and value 

 can be accurately gauged by the following scientific 

 review : 



As man's most remote ancestor Haeckel gives the Archl- 

 primas, a purely imaginary form. From him are descended the 

 Pachylemures, represented by the universally accepted Le- 

 muravida. Next come the Necrolemures, of whom nothing very 

 definite is said. From them, according to Haeckel, are 

 descended the apes, one of whom in particular, the Archipithe- 

 cus, is the ancestor of man this is again a product of the 

 imagination. The Prothylobates is a direct descendant of the 

 Archipithecus, but he too never had any existence, and has 



Haeckel, "The Struggle Regarding Evolution," p. 99. 



