98 MAN. 
ferior type than there are among the fossils known up to 
this time. . . . Every positive progress which we have 
made in the region of prehistoric anthropology has re- 
moved us farther from the demonstration of this theory !” 
Quite recently (in 1913) a remarkable fossil was 
found in the Oldoway gulch in northern German East 
Africa, by an expedition of the Geological Institute ‘of: 
the University of Berlin. The remains consist of a com- 
plete skeleton, which was found deeply imbedded in firm 
soil. Unquestionably ancient as these remains are,—the 
bones are completely fossilized,—they contained lamenta- 
bly few “primitive characteristics,’ and hence have not 
been exploited in the interest of the evolutionary theory. 
A fragment of skull, a tooth, a thigh-bone, offer much 
more inviting fields to the evolutionists, since they per- 
mit his imagination to range without the restraint of 
fact. The Oldoway fossil, which is in every essential] 
respect a normal human skeleton, possesses no special 
attractions for those who would represent man as a 
descendant of brutish ancestors. 
Says Prof. Virchow: “We seek in vain for the miss- 
ing link; there exists a definite barrier separating man 
from the animal which has not yet been effaced—heredity, 
which transmits to children the faculties of the parents. 
We have never seen a monkey bring a man into the world, 
nor a man produce a monkey. All men having a Simian 
(monkey-like) appearance are simply pathological vari- 
ants, (abnormal varieties, due to some diseased condi- 
tion). It was generally believed a few years ago that 
there existed a few human races which still remained in 
the primitive inferior condition of their organization. 
But all these races have been objects of minute investiga- 
tion, and we know that they have an organization like 
ours, often, indeed, superior to that of the supposed 
higher races. Thus the Eskimo head and the head of 
