The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-12
MAN AND %CHIMPANZEE.
The Proofs That They Have a Common
Ancestry.

Since leaders of Newport society have
gone to associating with chimpanzees it
may interest the public to recall what
man and ~chimpanzee have to show for
their distant relationship. In his Descent
of Man." Darwin thus sums up the mental
qualities of the chimpanzee: can anthro-
pomorphous ape. If he could take a dis
passionate view of his own case, would
admit that though he could form an artful
plan TO plumber a garden-though he could
use stones for fighting or for breaking
open nuts, yet that the thought Of fashion,
ing a stone into a tool was quite beyond
his scope. Still less, as he would admit,
could he follow out a train of metaphysical
reasoning or solve a prob
lem or reflect on God or admire a grand
natural scene. Some apes, however, would
declare that they could and did admire
the beauty of the colored skin and fur
Of their partners in marriage. They would
admit that though they could make other
apes understand by cries some of their
perceptions and simpler wants, the notion
of expressing definite ideas by definite
sound had never crossed their minds.
They might insist that they were ready 10
aid their fellow apes in the same troop
In many ways, to risk their lives for
them and to take charge of their orphans;
but they would be forced to acknowledge
that disinterested love for all living crea-
lures, the most noble attribute Of man.
was quite beyond their comprehension
| Nevertheless, the difference in mind be-
tween man and the higher animals, great
as it is, certainly is one of degree and not
| of kind"
Professor Saleeby in his Evolution the
Master Key" says, THE older evidence
of mans relation to the anthropoid apes
is familiar to all. He resembles them in
physical structure to an almost Incredible
degree. He shares with the chimpanzee
and the gorilla some 300 structural fea-
lures. which are not even possessed by
any of the lowest order of monkeys. His
earlier stages of development are quite
Observation-Disclosures from those of the anthro-
poid apes
This same writer says further: at has
recently been found that there is a whole
series of diseases which are CONNER to
man and the anthropoid apes, but which
attack no lower ANIMAL Professor Mech
nikoff and his fellow workers at the Pas
teur Institute have shown that these dis
eases can be communicated from man to
anthropoid apes. and that protective or
curative sera can thus be produced. This
fact" says Professor Saleeby. clearly
points to a profound resemblance In the
bodily chemistry-a physiological similarity
no less striking than the anatomical re-
semblance. so familiar-of man and THESE
| creatures"
Another searching test of the close rela-
apes Is thus described by Prof. Saleeby:
when the blood of a given animal. say
a dog. is injected into the blood vessels of
the red corpuscles of the cat are destroyed
and d~isintegrated, whereas II the dogs
blood be injected into another dog no such
disintegration occurs. Hence. in distin-
gushing between the blood OF . man and
a dog 1t is only necessary to make a
sterile solution of the blood stain and IN
ject 1t into a dog. IF 'h~aemolysis' occurs
the blood cannot be canine; If 1t does not,
the blood must certainly be canine. Now,
the astonishing and even bizarre fact is
that the blood of the a~nthropoid ape gives
the characteristic human reaction, while
the blood of the lower monkeys does not.
In other words, the blood of man and the
anthropoid ape are identical when judged
by this, the most subtle and delicate or All
known tests"
In concluding his summary of the proof
of hnship between man and ape, Prof.
Saleeby says: "Henceforth he who doubts
that man and the chimpanzee have a conn
mon ancestor must be congratulated on
hi. inviolate mind. Facts have no terrors
| for him News. !.