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Atheist, called Carl Vogt, though slightly 

 differing from the master on the mono- 

 gonist theory, asserts with surprising confi- 

 dence, that the missing link, for which the 

 whole party have been searching so many 

 years in vain, notwithstanding Professor 

 HaeckeFs boast that he has discovered it in 

 the " sand-eel," will in due time be disco- 

 vered, as he thus argues " IF the macaci 

 of Senegal, the baboons on the Gambia, 

 and the gibbons in Borneo have become 

 developed into Anthropoid apes, there is no 

 reason why these different stocks should be 

 denied the further development into the human 

 type ; in short, I cannot see why American 

 races of men cannot be derived from 

 American apes, Negroes from African apes, 

 or Negritos from Asiatic apes." 



Another foreign disciple of Mr. Darwin 

 speaks more positively on the subject, as 

 he discards all reasoning of the " IF " kind. 

 Dr. F. Gr. Bergmann, in his Resume a** Etudes 

 d'Ontologie generale, projects from the 

 depths of his moral consciousness the 

 beings from which the human race has 



