94 THE ORIGIN OF MAN 



words what was their color? Were there differ- 

 ent races or were they all alike ? Let us here use 

 our imagination to some extent, or better, let us 

 visualize what, to my mind, took place. Let us 

 paint a mental picture of the earth at the close 

 of the Cenozoic era, draped in a beautiful splen- 

 dor of plants and flowers, and inhabited by 

 many of our modern animals. We then gradu- 

 ally see life manifest itself, in the form of ani- 

 mals? No, in the form of small dwarfs, the an- 

 cestors of man. Are they all of the same race? 

 No, we see that in some parts of the earth, for 

 example in Africa, they are black, in America, 

 they are red, in Europe white and in Asia yellow. 

 But how can we account for such a happening? 

 We cannot form a theory simply on imagination. 

 We cannot have weird thoughts and ideas and 

 from such form a theory, by means of which we 

 can claim that such happenings actually took 

 place, just because no one can disprove it. De- 

 cidedly no ! Such a theory would not be worth a 



