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known cause ; the Christian evolutionist would say, 

 of God. Secondly, the half-intelligent races would 

 be exterminated, since they could not contend with 

 the higher races. 



Evidence from Fossils is Impossible. 



Unfortunately it is impossible from the very na- 

 ture of the case to get any evidence of the origin of 

 human intellect from fossils. Mental qualities leave 

 no fossils. It is not until mind is so far advanced 

 that animals are able to make artificial weapons 

 or other instruments, that it is possible for intel- 

 lect to leave any traces of itself. But when it 

 reaches this condition it is human. And hence 

 the first possible traces we can get of mind is af- 

 ter it has reached the grade which evolutionists are 

 trying to explain. Half-intelligent man could have 

 left no traces except his bones. It is, however, sig- 

 nificant to notice the character of the earliest traces 

 of man which are found. They consisted of the 

 rudest possible implements of stone, being noth- 

 ing more than pieces of stone clipped in such a 

 manner as to give them a manageable shape. It 

 is impossible to conceive of any thing simpler which 

 would give any evidence of mind. But the very 

 fact that they do indicate mind shows that we have 

 here evidences of men. From this simplest condi- 

 tion archeology has been able to trace a slow ad- 

 vance in intelligence. First, little better-shaped 

 tools, still made of stone, and then the gradual in- 

 troduction of metal implements, more and more 

 perfect in their shape, until historical times. Man 



