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surprised that these animals do not exist at the present 
time. They thrived when the earth was younger and 
great cataclysms occurred which buried them, and other 
cataclysms came about which brought them up-out of 
the sea and made them accessible for study in the rocks. 
Just so we look into the palaeontology of the horse and 
trace it from the tiny fox-like animal to the wonderfully 
adapted variety we have today. One might say that the 
horse has attained the peak of his physical possibilities. 
But we know practically nothing concerning ancient man. 
Perhaps as Wells and others have suggested, he was lost 
in a flood and when the sea broke through Gibraltar man 
was almost completely wiped off the face of the earth. 
Perhaps millions of years from now when the Mediter- 
ranean basin rises, like the dinosaurs, the structure of 
primitive man may be carefully studied. However, we 
are entitled to guess this much; that man attained the 
physical peak of development long before history was. 
We have with us today physical examples that might 
‘vie, measurement for measurement, with the Cro-Mag- 
non folk who perhaps disappeared from the earth many 
thousands of years ago along with the woolly mammoth, 
the giant elk and the sabre-toothed tiger. This is a point 
I wish to emphasize because it is essential for you to get 
the viewpoint. 
If man attained his physical perfection long ages ago, 
in what manner did his survival differ from that of the 
animals? In other words, having passed his physical 
peak he ought to slump, decline or be eliminated by the 
forces about him. The answer may be summed up in 
the word ‘‘intelligence.’’ It is not my purpose to define 
for you what intelligence may mean. It may, or-it may 
not, mean the ability to discriminate right from wrong. 
The intelligence manifested itself in the ability to: modify 
