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EVOLUTION MADE PLAIN 
Like man they are bipeds, and like man they 
have two hands. The brain of the ape, though 
much smaller than man’s, as we would expect 
it to be, is constructed on the same general 
plan as his with the same main fissures and 
the same groups of cells. There is no “missing 
link” in the plan and structure of man’s brain, 
whatever difference there may be between his 
and the ape’s in capacity. 
No scientist has ever been so foolish as to 
say that man and the apes belong to the same 
species. There are four species of the higher 
apes and one of man, though the one species 
of man is divided into five varieties, called 
“races.” Varieties differ less widely than spe¬ 
cies. Individuals within a variety also differ. 
Differences are no bar to unity if they are 
nullified and outweighed by similarities. 
Finally, let us keep in mind that while man 
has departed from the ancestral type, develop¬ 
ing in one direction, the apes have gone off 
in another and have acquired characteristics 
peculiarly their own. Resemblance in a babe 
and a young ape is far greater than in a man 
and an adult,ape. The same is true of the 
young of all allied species. This divergence 
from birth of the adults of different species is 
strong evidence of a common origin. 
These are only a few of the hundreds of 
evidences proving that man fits into the same 
creative scheme with the lower animals—prov¬ 
ing that he, in common with them, has de¬ 
veloped from still loAver forms, and that, as a 
product of the creative forces of Nature, he is 
wholly subject to her laws. 
