100 MAN. 
fitting him for communication with God and headship 
over the lower world.” Similarly Figuier held that “we 
know of no archaeological find (stone hatchets, etc.) that 
could not be pronounced only five thousand years old as 
well as fifty thousand.” 
Lionel S. Beale, the famous microscopist, testifies: 
“In support of all naturalistic conjectures concerning 
man’s origin, there is not at this time the shadow of 
scientific evidence.” 
William Hanna Thomson, M.D., LL.D., Physician 
to the Roosevelt Hospital; Consulting Physician to New 
York State Manhattan Hospital for the Insane, who has 
held a professorship in New York University Medical 
College; been president of the New York Academy of 
Medicine , etc, in his recent book. “What ts Physical 
Life?” says concerning the doctrine of evolution: “No 
contradiction could be greater than that between this 
doctrine and the greatest truth which underlies this 
human world.” 
The Russo-French physiologist, M. Elie DeCyon, for 
many years professor in the Faculty of Sciences and in 
the Academie Medico-chirurgicale at the University of 
Petrograd, has lately published a book of essays in which 
he says that the theory of evolution, especially in its re- 
lation to the ancestry of man, is a “pure assumption.” He 
quotes Prof. Fraas, who devoted his long life to the study 
of fossil animals: “The idea that mankind has descended 
from any Simian (ape) species whatsoever, is certainly 
the most foolish ever put forth by a man writing on the 
history of man. It should be handed down to posterity 
in a new edition of the Memorial of Human Follies. 
No proof of this baroque theory can ever be given from 
discovered fossils.” And to quote from another ad- 
dress by Virchow, delivered at Vienna: “I have never 
found a single ape skull which approaches at all the hu- 
