THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



they are monkeys. And perhaps there is suffi- 

 cient truth in this theory to justify the belief 

 that these apes actually represent a type of primi- 

 tive man who was arrested in his development 

 against his will, and who went so far in his 

 conservatism that he still illustrates the "mon- 

 key stage" of man. 



Again one might ask at this point, how it is 

 that a few of our crude and monkey-like great- 

 grandfathers are still living in the form of iso- 

 lated men of the woods, as a fixed primitive 

 type, at a time when present-day genuine man 

 has long arrived at his perfect form. But we 

 meet with the same phenomenon within genuine 

 humanity itself. Why does the native Australian 

 with his Stone Age civilization still live in the 

 bush, while over here civilized man has already 

 risen to the full height of his evolution? And 

 we have an illustration still closer at hand. In 

 the plains where the modern metropolis steams 

 and roars, progress walks with seven-leagued 

 boots, while yonder in the remote mountain vil- 

 lage ancient customs and institutions are still in 

 full bloom. So, this would not be a very perti- 

 nent objection. 



However, let us take a closer look at the anth- 

 ronoui H^es. We have four species." These four 



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