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the Terra del Fuegians belong to the perfected types. 
All the researches undertaken with the aim of finding 
continuity in progressive development have been without 
result. There exists no proanthrope, no man-monkey, 
and the ‘connecting link’ remains a phantom.” 
Dr. Berndt, of Berlin, recently said in the “Natur- 
wissenschaftliche Rundschau der Chemtkergeitung” 
(April, 1914) : “Max Weber, one of the best authorities 
on mammals, regards the anthropoid apes of to-day as a 
branch parallel to the human branch. Scholars like Cope, 
Adloeff, Klaatsch, prefer to push the origin of man back 
to the earliest age of terrestrial life, whence he went his 
way from the very outset separate from the apes.” This 
is a highly significant utterance. It means nothing more 
than this: there is not one recognizable link which unites 
man with the animal kingdom. All the intermediate 
forms between man and the original jelly-fish, which ac- 
cording to Haeckel and Vogt was his ancestor, have dis- 
appeared. For their existence. we have nothing but the 
word of speculative scientists. 
Concerning the Neanderthaler, the Cro-Magnon man, 
etc., Dr. Dawson has said: “Geological evidence resolves 
itself into a calculation of the rate of erosion of river 
valleys, of deposition of gravel and cave-earths, and of 
formation of stalagmite crusts, all of which are so varia- 
ble and uncertain that, though it may be said that an im- 
pression of great antiquity beyond the time of received 
history has been left on the minds of geologists, no 
absolute antiquity has been proved; and while some, on 
such evidence, would stretch the antiquity of man to even 
half a million years, the oldest of these remains may, 
after all, not exceed our traditional six thousand. These 
skeletons tell us that primitive man had the same high 
cerebral organization which he possesses now, and we 
may infer the same high intellectual and moral nature, 
