THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



indistinguishable and hides "Man" in beings 

 which are not at all like him. 



We must recall to mind the millions of years 

 of the primitive world, the infinite succession of 

 time, and think on and on along this line of 

 natural development, just as we would in the 

 case of a star which, once started on a defintie 

 course from a certain point, continues to move 

 and move incessantly in a certain fixed direc- 

 tion. 



But now that we have gone so far, we feel 

 a pardonable curiosity and a certain daring. 

 Would it not be possible for our penetration, 

 once we have conceived of these possibilities, to 

 forge ahead still farther into the mystery of 

 things, get at the facts of all these "possibilities," 

 and ask what disguise man might have adopted ? 

 What may be those strange primitive beings, the 

 fossil remains of which we might perhaps find 

 and in which he may be most likely hidden ? 



We have at least a starting point. We per- 

 ceive, so to say, the mathematical point where 

 the course begins to deviate, that is to say, we 

 may start from these grotesque skulls of the ice- 

 age with their crude bumps above the eyes. May 

 we not speculate a little further as to the next 

 physical transformation, and so forth? 



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