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of races or changes in form or structure ; and the longer these periods of 

 separate parallelism have existed, the worse for the evolutionists. 



Fourth. — The assumed connection between the Anthropoid apes and man 

 has never been proven by the discovery of any intermediate link either in 

 the near or remote past by the keenest scented evolutionist or student of 

 Palaeontology. Agassiz, Mivart and Verchow agree that no links do now 

 or ever did exist between man and apes, while Agassiz sustains Wallace in 

 the opinion that a special creative act of the Deity was required for the 

 develo]:)ment of man. It might also be urged here that an "intrusive inter- 

 ference" on the part of Deity in creating man, and simply evolving the other' 

 animals from each other, is far more inconsistent with a philosophical view 

 of the origin of life than a steadfast and unvarying adherence to "natural 

 law ; " hence if it be admitted that such an exception ever was made, the 

 creative theory is best suited to philosophical thinkers. '■'Aut omnis aut' 

 nullus.'" 



Zoologically speaking, the apes are no nearer man than several other 

 species of animals, unlike in form, either mentally or physically, since they 

 do not belong to the same genus, family or order. Physically, if any con- 

 nection could be found to exist, it would probably be directly opposite to- 

 that claimed by the evolutionists, since in their natural condition apes are 

 by far fitter for the struggle for life, whether in resisting the attacks of 

 other animals or in withstanding the vicissitudes of climate and weather. 

 Besides this, anatomically speaking, apes differ more or less essentially from 

 man in their brains, skins, skeletons and teeth, and the adaptation of these 

 various parts to the necessities of each animal. In regard to their brains, 

 which differ very widel}^ in size from that of man, it is only necessary to 

 say that while the brain of an ordinary white man measures about 90 cubic 

 inches, that of the Negro 85, that of the lowest order of men as much as 

 68, and that of the smallest adult human being known, a female Hottentot, 

 idiot, 62^ cubic inches, that of the largest gorilla is only 32 cubic inches in 

 capacity. Besides this, the difference between the brains of men and apes- 

 is most marked in the^number of secondary convolutions, which are devel- 

 oped in a different order, i. e., those which appear first in man appear last 

 in the ape. If the development of brain is arrested in a child, causing 

 idiocy, the resemblance to that of the ape is less rather than more striking- 

 than if the child's brain had become fully developed. 



M. Quatrefages concludes an exhaustive argument on this subject, in 

 which he has summed up the contents of a number of contempoi'ary works,, 

 as follows: "With regard to the Simial origin of man, it is nothing but 

 pure hypothesis, or rather, nothing but a mere jei« d' esprit which everything- 

 proves utterly baseless, and in favor of which no solid fact has as yet been 

 appealed to." 



The very oldest human skulls ever found showed a brain capacity of 75' 

 inches, and a shape almost entirely similar to that of the existing Caucasian 

 species; so that there is no evidence from the very remotest period of man's- 



