THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



far as I am personally concerned, I wish to em- 

 phasize that I have endeavored most earnestly for 

 many years to arrive at an unbiased opinion on 

 this question. I have asked myself again and 

 again whether it could not be possible to meet 

 our antagonists half way at this point, and thus 

 do away with an unspeakably painful strife 

 which is disturbing the work of civilization at the 

 present time, and at the same time to reconcile 

 two parties which have, each of them, a great 

 number of worthy and absolutely honest repre- 

 sentatives, who long for an understanding of the 

 riddles of life. I am compelled to admit frankly 

 that the result of all my deliberations has inevita- 

 bly led to the same inexorable conclusion. The 

 answer was always a determined "No." And 

 it cannot be otherwise. Whoever is convinced of 

 the causal and natural evolution of man from 

 uni-cellular protozoa, cannot reconcile his logic 

 with a change of method in explaining the exist- 

 ence of these primitive protozoa. He cannot at 

 (this point drop the principle of causal inter-rela- 

 [tion on the chance of exchanging it for the prin^ 

 ipple of miracles. 



Our logical thought, which is itself based on 

 the principle of cause and effect, would have to 

 demand in that case the same miracle for its own 



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