CHAPTER NINE. 
Man. 
“There is no longer any doubt among scientists that 
man descended from the animals.’ This sweeping 
statement was made in 1920 by Edwin Grant Conklin 
professor of biology in Princeton University. And so 
evolutionists generally, while giving up geology as hope- 
less in regard to the evolution of plants and animals, 
cling to the doctrine that man has ascended, through 
long ages of development, from the brute. We have 
seen that Wallace and other profound students of the 
subject recognize the essential difference between the 
faculties of man and the instincts of animals. They ad- 
mit that forces resident in matter do not account for the 
origin of Thought. They believe that Spirit—God,— 
created something new when intelligence first entered 
the brain of man. But even Wallace holds that the hu- 
man body is a product of evolution; that there was a 
common brute ancestor, both for apes and the men. 
The search for the missing link between man and his ani- 
mal ancestor is still going on. As soon as any human 
remains are dug up in the earth, evolutionists begin to 
measure the skull and bones, and to find how many points 
of resemblance they have to the apes. If the brain-pan 
is a bit shallow, or small, or the eyebrows prominent, or 
the slope of the face acute, or the teeth and jaws large, 
they announce with much confidence that the “missing 
link” has been found. But after a while they begin to 
grow more modest and end in finding other points which 
show that the specimen was an unmistakable ape, or an 
unmistakable man, and not something between the two. 
