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bound to declare that every positive 

 advance which we have made in the person 

 of prehistoric anthropology has actually 

 removed us further from the proof of such a 

 connexion. As a matter of fact, we must 

 positively recognise that as yet there always 

 exists a sharp line of demarcation between 

 man and the ape. We cannot teach, we can- 

 not pronounce it to be a conquest of science, 

 that man descends from the ape or any other 

 animal. We can only indicate it as an 

 hypothesis. From the repeated experience 

 of the past we ought to take a signal warning, 

 lest we should unnecessarily impose on 

 ourselves the obligation, or succumb to the 

 temptation to draw conclusions at a time 

 when we are not justified in so doing.'' 

 And he adds this just remark, which might 

 well induce caution to all sceptics, even to 

 those who have gone the lengths of Pro- 

 fessors Haeckel or Huxley " Whosoever 

 speaks or writes for the public is bound 

 to examine with double care how much 

 of that which he knows and says is ob- 

 jectively true. With perfect truth Bacon 

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