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Does not this theory appear as acceptable as the 

 scientific theory, in which it is claimed that man 

 descended from the ape, and in which no mention 

 is made as to the color of man or as to the origin 

 of the other races? Is not this theory as accept- 

 able as the theological theory in which is claimed 

 that man descended from Adam and in which 

 no mention is made as to the origin of the other 

 races ? 



We have also seen how our modern mammals 

 have descended from small animals which had 

 their origin during the Cenozoic period — even as 

 far back as the Paleozoic, when the fishes arose, 

 the ancestors of our modern mammals. What 

 then is incredible in that modern man descended 

 from the dwarfs ? Is there not as much possibility 

 in that we descended from those dwarfs as there is 

 in that a horse, for example, descended from 

 those fishes that had their origin in the Paleo- 

 zoic era? You might at first not agree with me 

 in that a horse descended from a fish, but were 



