EVOLUTION. 9 



comes at some lower part of the tree, when, as 

 Wilson says, ** from a common ancestor the human 

 and ape types took divergent roads and ways toward 

 the ranks of nature's aristocracy." 



Gabriel de Mortelet has just issued in Paris a 

 scholarly work, which he claims establishes the fact 

 " that during Tertiary times there existed a being 

 intelligent enough to produce fire and to fabricate 

 instruments of stone ; but this being was not yet a 

 man." More evidence needs to be accumulated 

 before his conclusion can be considered to be proved; 

 but all analogies of the animal kingdom point to the 

 former existence of more man-like animals than have 

 yet been found. Only the discovery of their bones 

 will satisfy many minds, but what has already been 

 observed of the connection of various species and 

 classes of animals gives to others an assurance as to 

 the relationship of man to animals that would not be 

 increased by the presentation of any number of 

 "missing links." One link proves the existence of a 

 chain. 



It must not be understood that every animal can 

 be traced back by connecting links to a lower one, 

 but that the types or great classes of animals are 

 more or less connected. A great number of indi- 

 viduals, however, can be followed back to earlier 

 forms, and analogy suggests that all might be thus 

 traced had not time destroyed the records. Huxley 

 says : ** If one series of species has come into exist- 



