Show THE FIRST MAX A Evidence That He Wns the high cit Type of Mnnuimln At the hall of the Art club Prof Edward Ed-ward Morse of Salem Mass made an interesting address before the mem hers of the Contemporary club on the subject When Did Man First Appear on Earth Prof Morse at the outset stated that It was impossible to pay within 100 000 ear how long man had existed upon the earth He based this opinion on his acceptance of the genuineness of remains re-mains said to be of human origin found in the tertiary geological period Mans handiwork is found in deposits deposis at an earlier period than his bones while the bones of animals presumably existing at the same period are found In great numbers In explanation of this it ha been shown explanaton ances I tors of > man left their remains on the forest floor where they soon decayed whifeothe creatures like the mammoths moths which got mired in the clay and mud had their bones preserved I was natural that man should be lieve himself to be the last and highest created being Is man after all the highest mammal I has been shown that in all the physical characteristics man is a very primitive animal There were marked differences in races cX c I mankind 40000 years ago but we must believe that all have had a common origin There must have been a time when there was a common type The greatest difference between man and the chimpanzee gorilla and gibbon is in the cubic contents of the brain which in man is about 1500 cubic centi cent meters and in the animals mentioned about 600 cubic centimeters There is more evidence of a caudal appendage i man than on those animals Man ha been produced by the convergence of several lines of development the same a in the case of all other animals Whatever age geologists ascribe to the tertiaries the speaker was willing to ascribe as-cribe a the date ofthe appearance of man At the conclusion of Prof Morses address ad-dress Dr Brinton stated that few geologists geol-ogists mow thought the four instances of human remains found in the tertiares to be genuine I had come to be believed that mans origin was at a much later date following the glacial period While man himseK is connected with the great chain of organic life direct ancestry has not been proven He did not find an absolutely final argument He had no doubt that man began at one place That he achieved that position perhaps not by some long slow method but that he burst into the world in onetime one-time with his faculties and powers far greater than any of his parents were capable of possessing There are instances in-stances of this in our daily lives We find a great man being born In a nation one in ten millions like a Goethe or Shakespeare Darwin himself the great apostle of evolution acknowledges absolutely ab-solutely that what called was caled spontaneous spontan-eous variation was far beyond all his means of investigation There is some change which takes place In the prenatal pre-natal life of the individual that develops devel-ops him Into the first genius or poet of a century a a man was developed from a lower animal Prof Morse said that to answer Dr Brinton would require a discussion oif the question a to whether acquired traits were transmitted He asked where the tribes of Shakespeare could be found Prof Hellprin referring to the discoveries discov-eries of human remains In the tertiar ies said that he had diligently searched the Trenton gravel deposits but found no evidence of human remains such a I had been reported Philadelphia L I ger |