The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-27
TRULY THESE Be
HARSH WORDS
SCIENTIST WHO THUS DESCRIBES
LOWEST FORMS OF LIFE OUGHT
TO BE SUED-EVoLUTIoN WAS
NOT SLOW.

New York World: The Amoeba is
"a Notwithstanding, homogeneous,
protoplasmic speck; it is automatic,
metabolic, reproductive and respiratory.
And that, gentlemen, Is the lowest
form of animal life.
Having said all these harsh and I'M
kind things about our protoplasmic
few hundreds of millions of years of
evolution and come to the highest
form Of animal life-the super-intellec-
tual man. Here we may f1ttingly
pause and consider the lofty dome,
brilliant eyes and generally impressive
presence Of DR.. J. Leon Williams, Fell
law of the Royal Anthropological In
stitute Of Great Britain and Ireland,
and one of the worlds greatest au-
thorities on the theory Of the evolution
Of a
Restored the PiItdown Skull.
DR.. Williams has arrived in this
country, bringing with him several
trunks. and bags filed with pictures
and casts and skulls related to the
most astounding of recent discoveries
as to the antiquity of man. The noted
scientist enthusiastically hopes to turn
New York's attention from turkey
trotting long enough to pay some heed
to the message he will deliver from
the lecture platform, n If he Is half
as convincing in public as he is in his
own room with his proofs spread be-
fore him, the anti-evolutionists might
as we'll prepare to be routed.
1t Is DR.. Williams, you must un-
derstand, who has just completed the
restoration Of the world, famous Pilt-
down Skull of England, the skull of a
prehistoric man who, according to the
great scientists generally accepted
conclusions, must have died no less
than 500, 600 years ago. 1t is the same
DR.. Williams who is engaged in {
courteous but heated controversy with
other eminent minds OF England anC
the continent over the truth of Ger.
tain portions Of the Darwinian theory
And he has come to America, the ma
tive land he left thirty years ago tt
pursue his studies in antiquity abroad
to present before the scientific men O
the United States the conclusions h,
and others have reached through thei
latest research and discoveries.
DR.. Williams has a gripsack fillet
with the copies Of prehistoric drawing
at least 10000 years old, pictures founC
scratched by flint instruments on tn,
enduring stone walls of caves II
southern France. Some Of these draw
ings exhibit a skill uneXcelled by an,
artists of today. He discussed evolu
ton in simple, straightforward term
that any one could understand.
With the appearance of Darwin
great works on The Origin Of Specie
and The Descent of Man, he said
the first successful assault was mad
on the barriers Of ancient tradition
and a new world Of thought wa
opened. For the first time it was clear
ly seen that man, although far abov
his animal congeners, was indissolubl
linked to them by almost innumerabl
ties Of physical structure and function
SIT is seen, however, that the ctours
of mons evolution has not proceede
quite after the manner b
) Darwin and his immediate followers
While natural selection as Darwi
, termed it, has undoubtedly played tn
, most important part in the develop
: ment of the human species, other fac
! tors have been discovered which hay
considerably increased the complexit
l of the problem.
BY Leaps and Bounds.
"In common with many other in
!. vestigators / ave ONE to believ
1 that instead Of being always a SLOW
steady process, evolution of specie
t was sometimes accomplished by leap
and bounds. Entirely new species hay
! SuQueHly sprung up from the union {
males and females of an old and slow
: ly evolving species.
: I'VE are here confronted by til
9 thrilling intellectual proposition ths
somewhere at some time a. father an
] son of a certain species stood side b
side and one might have pointed at til
: father and said ape and at the SO
and said man
The soundneSs of this variation /
the pure DarWinian theory is s~ustaine
by the recent discovery of huma
{ skulls of a modern type and high brai
capacity which are believed to be 1
least 100000 years Did. Then there
this very Piltdown skull about whic
there has been SO much discussion.
was found in a layer of gravel depos
of such geological character as
convince the scientific world that it
fully 100000 years old. And yet tit
dome Of the skull is distinctly moder
in type, as are it's teeth, while til
jawbone is unauestionably that OF
large anthropoid ape.
Believes i'm School Eugenics.
One Of the most important purpose
of our effort to solve the mysteries
the past lies in its bearing on the I'll