THE ORIGIN OF MAN 93 



inorganic matter came to life in the form of small 

 microscopical animals called animalcules. What 

 then is to prevent us from assuming that at the 

 close of the Cenozoic era man originated in a 

 similar manner, not in the form of animalcules 

 but in the form of small dwarfs. That dead mat- 

 ter came to life in the form of organisms which by 

 mutual attraction formed small dwarfs, the early 

 ancestors of man. Man is created in a some- 

 what similar manner today, not by dead matter 

 coming to life, but by organisms formed by the 

 union of a sperm and an egg of a male and fe- 

 male, so therefore this reasoning is not as incon- 

 ceivable as was first supposed. Furthermore this 

 conclusion is strengthened by the universal belief 

 that man was created from dust. If we then as- 

 sume this to be the case, these dwarfs by means 

 of evolution gradually grew to the size of about 

 five feet, three or four inches, the size of the pre- 

 historic man. 



But were these dwarfs light or dark, in other 



