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certainty. What Is to be thought of the Pithecan- 

 thropus erectus, or "walking ape-man," we have 

 sufficiently shown in our chapter on "The Missing 

 Link." 6 The endlessly conflicting views pro- 

 nounced on the upper portion of a skull, two 

 molar teeth and a thigh bone, found at different 

 times and in different locations in a Java river 

 bed, out of which fragments this specimen is re- 

 constructed, should give any scientist pause, since 

 there is not a single detail in regard to these 

 dubious relics on which his confreres can agree 

 with each other. 



Again we are told with absolute assurance that 

 Neanderthal man belonged to an extinct species 

 that appeared about 100,000 years ago, 75,000 

 years before the existing species. To show how 

 unfounded this assurance is we need but refer to 

 the conclusion arrived at in this matter by Pro- 

 fessor Arthur Keith, whose authority the Prince- 

 ton professor at all events will not question and 

 who assumes the descent of man from some sim- 

 ian form. "We were compelled to admit," says 

 Keith as the result of extensive investigations, 

 "that men of modern type had been in existence 

 long before the Neanderthal type." 7 So too Pro- 

 fessor Dwight, who for some twenty-five years 

 had been Parkman professor of anatomy at Har- 

 vard, concluded in anticipation of Keith's judg- 



8 Chapter XIII. 



'"The Antiquity of Man." (1916-) 



