2 8 Darwinism 



may appear in our midst as sports. They are forms 

 typical of the " genus homo sapiens," even although the 

 one may have been brutal in aspect and the other low 

 in intelligence. 



Moreover, as he tells us, Professor Ragazzoni dis- 

 covered in the same strata — the Pleistocene — remains 

 of a man of quite a high and modern type, and his dis- 

 covery is accepted as authentic by Professor Sergi, of 

 Rome. So that on the evidence we are entitled to 

 conclude, as was stated earlier, that the oldest remains 

 yet discovered cannot be said to be the precursor of 

 man, they are only man himself. Again we ask where 

 are the millions of intermediate forms between the 

 anthropoid and man ? And we decline to accept as 

 truth the statement as to the existence at any time of 

 different kinds of men, if by " different kinds " is 

 meant that they were of so specific a character as to 

 make it impossible to include them within the species 

 as we know it to-day of the " genus homo sapiens." 



Darwin insists upon the causes which check the 

 natural tendency of each species to increase beyond 

 the means of subsistence being " most obscure." " We 

 know not," says Darwin, " what the checks are, even 

 in a single instance." In the animal kingdom the 

 individuals of each species reproduced in each genera- 

 tion far exceed the number that could, if they all 

 survived, find maintenance. In the antelope and 

 other grass or herb-eaters it is easy to account for non- 

 increase, as they produce only one offspring at a time 

 and afford sustenance to the carnivora or flesh-eaters, 

 to whom they supply the necessary amount of food. 

 If the carnivora became too numerous it is surely 

 evident that very soon the herbivora would be ex- 

 terminated, while on the other hand if the carnivora 

 are too few, the herbivora would increase to an undue 

 extent. Thus nature maintains a uniform ratio 



