CHAPTER XVII 



ANTIQUITY OF THE HUMAN R4CE 



SIR BERTRAM WINDLE felicitously re- 

 fers to the huge drafts for millions on mil- 

 lions of years made on the bank of time by 

 many of our modern scientists. Hundreds of 

 thousands of years are lavishly disposed of by ma- 

 terialistic evolutionists merely to account for the 

 supposed development of present-day man, Homo 

 sapiens as he is scientifically called, from his very 

 nearest zoological ancestor. "Through unnum- 

 bered millions of years," says Professor Conklin 

 in the first of the Princeton Lectures to which we 

 have already alluded, "evolution has moved on 

 from the lowest form of life to the highest, from 

 amoeba to man." 



There is no twitching of a muscle, no lifting of 

 an eye-brow, no shrugging of a shoulder blade, 

 as this assertion is made. Yet short of a private 

 revelation there is no way in which the Professor 

 could ^have obtained his certainty in this matter. 

 Darwin denied that when there is question of 

 species in the strict sense of the word an evolution 

 from one to the other could ever be proved in 



