THE SIMIAN ORIGIN OF MAN. 348 



But although there is no tangible evidence of the 

 existence of the missing link, connecting man with 

 the monkey or with lower forms of life, some people 

 have, nevertheless, to use Virchow's ironical words, 

 " seen him in their dreams." They have seen him in 

 the gorilla and in the orang-outang, in the lemur and 

 in the kangaroo. They have observed him in the 

 Neanderthal man, and in the men of Naulette, Denise, 

 of Canstadt and of Eguisheim. De Mortillet has 

 scrutinized him in the imaginary being that fashioned 

 the flint-flakes of Thenay, Puy-Courny and Portugal. 

 And so sure is he that he has discovered our im- 

 mediate ancestor, that he has dubbed him with the 

 name, anthropopithecus, the man-ape, or the ape- 

 man. 1 Darwin has described him as a hairy pithecoid 

 animal, arboreal in habits and a denizen of " some 

 warm forest-clad land." According to Cope, man is 



vu qu'un singe mette au monde un homme, ou que 1'homme pro- 

 duise un singe. Tous les hommes a 1'aspect simiesque ne sont 

 que de^produits pathologiques. 



" A premiere vue, il est tres facile de supposer qu'un crane 

 dolicocephale se transforme en un crane brachycephale, et 

 cependant personne n'a encore observe la transformation d'une 

 race dolicocephale en une race brachycephale, et vice versa, ou 

 celle d'une race negre en une race aryenne. 



" Ainsi, dans la question de 1'homme, nous sommes repousses 

 sur toute la ligne. Toutes les recherches entreprises dans le 

 but de trouver la continuite dans le developpement progressif, ont 

 ete sans resultat; il n'existe pas de pro-anthropos: il n'existe pas 

 d'homme-singe ; le chainon intermediaire demeure un fantome.'' 

 Revue Scientifque, Nov. 5, 1892. 



1 In striking contrast with the fanciful theories of De Mortil- 

 let, are the clearly expressed views of De Quatrefages, one of 

 the most eminent of modern anthropologists. Referring to the 

 subject under consideration he asserts " Dolichocephalic or 

 brachycephalic, large or small, orthognathous or prognathous, 

 Quaternary man is always man in the full acceptance of the 

 word." "The Human Species," p. 294. 



