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Show E j MAN AND THE MONKEY; THE DIF- FERENCE rNo wonder they say man is descend- cd ifrom the monkey." Extract from New York paper. Let 'em say it all they please, brothers. it isn't so. And next time somebody springs that common lie on you as a j scientific fact, just tell him that no com-;., com-;., i ptent scientist ever said anything of the j land. t iVVhen the average chap speaks of our W 'descent from the monkey, he of course thinks of the monkey or the ape that now inhabits the earth and which is so f ami- liar in menageries, zoos and museums. H j .What modern biologists beginning with' Darwin claim....and prove to the satisfac-M satisfac-M tion of the learned....is .that man is de- scended from the same "root," the same j .original animal substance of millions of I years ago that the ape is descended from. That is far from saying that said "root" H , was an ape. The ridiculos monkey of to-H to-H '- 'day is most certainly no more like that H t orignal stem, no more like that orignal "root" father than man himself is like that orignal father J .When you realize the evolution of the H I bird which, as has been abundantly prov-. H ; ed, is descended from the reptile, and H the reptile from water animals, you will H j understand what changes must have H r come through evolution to both the hu-H hu-H t man ahd the ape since that original an- cestor lived, and became extinct many, H I many millions of years ago, according to H the scientists. Ij . He may have been the most beautiful H I creature the earth has ever seen, throw- , ing out one branch that degenerated i steadily through ages into the ape and H another that progressed through ages in-H in-H to the Godlike human. But at worst, when you think of your ' fellow beings, there is not the slightest H , reason why you should associate their an- cestry with the monke.ys of this age. |