Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-07-28
ORIGIN OF MAS.
Manhood Has Not Descended From inc APe---1hs Missing LiHk Closes
 the Gap.
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lBK HARMON oLMsrEAD.
 , Having heard emphatic expre
 slOns of belief from several ind } viduals, as we'll as having read V;
 rious articles in the press during th , past few years conveying the im
 pression that mankind had origi , nally descended from some specie
 of the mammal no higher in the or ganic scale than the Ourang or thl
 ape, (presumably from the teach ings of Darwin,) ) 1 desire to expres
 q few sentiments. But, first, I vii
 say that. owing to imperfect knowl
 Q lge and understanding, as we'll a,
 lack of time and inclination, I shaI
 attempt no further discussion or in,
 yite any controversy on this, to sa-
 wants, and, we may also add, she
 probable future destiny of mankind
 The assertion by Darwin that the
 mental powers" of man, as com
 pared with those of an animal, (page
 l26 of his ''Descent of ManH) differ
 only only in degree and not in kind,
 is an assertion that has not been
 proven and established. That be
 tween man and ape there does ap-
 pear difference in kind as we'll as
 m degree of the mental make up
 may be shown even from Darwin's
 own works, as in his Descent Of
 Man" grasps abstract conceptions,
 and in his voyage around the world
 Darwin shows q sense Of moral re- sponsibility and evidence of possess ing the mental faculties of spirit uality and generation, such as prompts the generality of mankind to believe in future existence and to worship spiritual creator. These higher powers of the human mind belong to the mental make up of man alone, male and female, as none of the animal creation show eVi- dence of possessing them. Hence it IS an inference that the higher men tai powers of the human being are not possessed by the ourang or the ape because they are not part of their mental organization. I will now endeavor to combine rational belief with the following thesis:
 First-The observed uniformities of nature continue. No human be- ing has been begotten by any tribe of apes, ourang or gorilla, since the dawn of written history to our times.
 Second-The observed uniformi- ties of nature still continue. There fore no human being can be or has been begotten by any tribe of apes, curang or gorilla. at any time.
 As may be perceived this appears as something more than rational be- Lief, yet the solidity of the conclu- sion rests only with the validity of the premises.
 That the uuiformities of nature have continued to operate the same in kind, though differing in degree, since the time that the first organic forms were evolved has become one of the established convictions of the scientific mind.
 Dismissing now any idea that the offspring resulting from the union Of a male and female ape can or has grown to be human being, is ira tional and incompatible with the known operations of nature. The mind of the human being is evi- dently of different kind from that of the brute, These are our ideas yet our ideas are but emanations from the mind. We cannot pene- trate the mental abyss, it is evi- dently a part of tho infinite. It may here be observed that Darwin's sci entific inductions to justify the prin- ciple of evolution, places mankind as having descended from some pre- existing intermediate type, higher in tho organic scale than the ape, and antedating primitive man of the ! Psychozaic era.
 Evidently the remains of this in | termediate or midway race are asso- ciated with older formations of the | early quarternary and closely con- neeted with the primitive man of | the cave dweller, mound builder and | cliff dweller of the stone age. Yes | tiges of the ''lost link" have been | found in the island of Java imbedded l deeply below the surface in a sedi | mentary material of volcanic origin. (See Mining and Scientific Press, from which l make few selected | quotations.) These remains of a new form or type appear to meet the requirements of a missing link. The cranium of the Pave skull is just midway between the gorilla and the lowest normal of man. The cranum capacity of the gorilla is 500 ccm. In the Pava skull the ca- pacity is 1000 ccm and in man the is 1500 ccm.
 The femur of this specimen of the lost lInk or midway race indicates that it walked erect just as man and cannot be considered as belonging to any species of ape. There is req son to believe that this necessary link in the chain of cauSation, once the dominant race, were mostly overwhelmed by general catastro- phe, of which there only remains evidence of a geologic nature.
 A more recent and most import ant archaeological discovery or or generalized type of the human form, has been found by Mir. McCarty, a noted hunter of Ari- zona, and the following graphic de- scription by Colonel Rogers, quote from the Prescott Courier: "The reporter yesterday looked at hunter McCarty's mummy of Toltec man, now on exhibition in West Prescott. The mummy was fonnd in a cliff dwelling in the Verde canyon nine ty-five miles from Prescott. The cliff dwelling consisted of one open room 6xl2 feet and one tightly sealed room 7x9 feet. Upon tearing out the sealed partition between the rooms, be found in the sealed room the Toltec mummy kneeling on a soap weed mat with the body upright and the head erect, the