130 Indian Stone Graves, [ February, 
It is held generally, in popular misconceptions of the doctrine 
of evolution, that man is a direct descendant of the higher apes, 
and the gorilla is commonly looked on as being his nearest pro- 
genitor. From the standpoint of science, however, no student of 
biology will maintain that the ancestry of man has yet been fully 
traced, but will limit himself to the conviction that at some period | 
of the prehistoric world, the forces of nature, acting from with- 
out, on the plastic materials of life, have brought down from an f 
unknown point of departure—perhaps among the lemurs—two 
diverging lines of development, one of which finds its present 
type in man, the other in the Catarrhine monkeys and their 
highest form—the anthropoids. : 
Perhaps the future of science may unfold the details of devel 
opment, but to do this it is probable that ages of geological up 
heaval will be required, to bring above the ocean continents long i 
buried, in which the process took place and in which the records 
Manlike as are the apes, there is a contrast which the resem: 
blance serves, in great part, but to intensify—anatomy finds sio 
larity throughout and takes note of little that is unlike, whi : 
function, based upon these structures, has become so special ‘ 
and elevated during progress from the lower to the higher, a 
become almost difference, and man and ape are in fact as in oF 
separated by a gulf so vast that the furthest reach of science “i 
catch, as yet, but shadowy outlines of the other side. 
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INDIAN STONE GRAVES." 
‘practice of constructing them had not yet ceased in the pre" 
century. I purpose to furnish that evidence in this paper: 
` TRead at the Montreal Meeting of the American Assuciation for the Ad 
ment of Science, August 25, 1882. | 
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