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the more recent discoveries, concludes : "Such ma- 

 terial as this throws no light upon the question of 

 race and descent. All the human bones of de- 

 terminable age that have come down to us from 

 the European Deluvium, as well as all the skulls 

 discovered in caves, are identified by their size, 

 shape or capacity as belonging to Homo sapiens 

 (true man). They do not by any means fill up 

 the gap between man and the ape." 14 



Is it not wonderful then and wholly inexplicable 

 that in the face of all these facts, the textbooks 

 of science as well as sociology should still have 

 repeated by rote the same hopeless strain of dog- 

 matism in affirming the undoubted existence of the 

 fabulous missing link, who, so far as science is 

 concerned, must be classed among the griffins and 

 the wiverns and the Loreleis? Thus in his text- 

 book of Zoology (1904), Adam Sedgwick con- 

 tinues this system of mythical classsification with 

 the most positive assurance, as if no one had ever 

 even questioned it: 



Man is not known fossil till the Pleistocene. He is there 

 represented by H. Sapiens, and by an extinct species, H. primi- 

 genius, Schwalbe, (neanderthalensis) from the Neanderthal 

 (1856), from Spy (1885), and from Kapina in Croatia (about 

 1899), and possibly from other localities. This extinct species 

 is not thoroughly known, but it clearly belongs to a lower grade 

 of organization than H. Sapiens. 



Peace to its memory! After the most careful 

 study of the human skull, brought into such notice 



" "Outlines of Paleontology," p. 37. 



