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towards Theism ; who, far from being opposed to the 

 theory of man's descent from the ape, most strongly 

 favors it, but who insists on having evidence of such 

 connection before giving his assent. I refer to the 

 celebrated anatomist and anthropologist, Dr. Ru- 

 dolph Virchow, than whom no one is more compe- 

 tent to give an opinion on this much-vexed question. 

 In an address delivered before the twentieth gen- 

 eral meeting of the German Anthropological Associ- 

 ation, at Vienna, August, 1 889, he gave a review of the 

 progress of anthropology during the preceding two 

 decades. In the course of his discourse he asserted, 

 what he has more recently affirmed at Moscow and 

 elsewhere, that there is as yet not a scintilla of evi- 

 dence for the ape-origin of man, and that even the 

 hope of discovering the missing link is something 

 that does not find any warranty in the known facts 

 of anthropology. 



"At the time of our coming together twenty years 

 ago," he says, " Darwinism had just made its first 

 triumphal march through the world. My friend, 

 Carl Vogt, with his usual vigor entered the contest, 

 and through his personal advocacy secured for this 

 theory a great adherence. At that time it was hoped 

 that the theory of descent would conquer, not in the 

 form promulgated by Darwin, but in that advanced 

 by his followers ; for we have to deal now not with 

 Darwin but with Darwinians. No one doubted 

 that the proof would be forthcoming, demonstrating 

 that man descended from the monkey and that this 

 descent from a monkey, or at least from some kind 

 of an animal, would soon be established. This was 



