The Carlisle independent., 1921-03-03
OUT-DARWINS DARWIN IN THE
 APE THEORY
World to Return to Monkey Rule, Says
 Gloomy Savsnt


 Paris, Feb. 2S-Man is not only ,l,<' ended from monkeys but mou- keys are descended from 6 race .f prehistoric men who, from being over civilized, finally sank into barbarism and from thence to savagery, even- tually becoming monkeys again.
 The world is now in the second stage of human evolution and, unless 'normality asserts itself over the false culture" is pushed aside and modern tendencies toward destruc- ton, the earth in another 2000 years will be again peopled solely by moa- keys
 These are the extraordinary state ments made by Prof. A. Linckewicz, of Vienna, in a book entitled 'The Beast in Man." a commentary ridi- culing. which appears in the current issue of the Revue Literary des Arts ct Sciences. published at Paris.
 Linekwicz is the 85-year-old Aus trian biologist who in work publish ed in 1904 foretold that the 20th cen tury would be one of almost continu- ous war. He repeats this assertion in his new book and accuses the various peace treaties of containing the germs of l24 possible wars, including:
 The United States of Europe versus the United States of Asia.
 The United States and Australia versus Japan.
 France versus Greece and Italy.
 England versus the United States.
 Explaining his "pre-Darwinian" theory the aged Australian professor claims that archaeological discoveries in China, Egypt, Russia, Italy and elsewhere prove exclusively that a civilization older than the Atlantic Ocean existed when what is now the United States was a sea.
 From Primeval Apes
 "The' human race which inhabited the earth at that time" he says, "was the result of 10 centuries of evolution from the primeval ape and was far more highly developed than is the civ ilization of today. Although along different lines.
 ".At the stage for instance, tele. phony had been replaced by telepathy and is was possible for business man in China to send an order to an agent in Scandinavia by simply concentrat- ing the processes of his thought on the subject and transporting his mind for the moment to the other end of the earth.
 "This faculty is at present retained only by small group of Hindo phil osophers in India who have been re- markedly successful in thought trans ference and in other directions, such as the ability to stimulate death for . period as long as 70 years after which they emerge with completely new brain whereon are received impress sions such as the brain of a year-old child would receive. These men are then practically reborn and often live normal lifetime thereafter. They cannot, however, repeat the experi- ment
 "The pre-civilized were in regular communication with certain of the stars, but is is not possible to say with which particular ones. although the Grecian legends surrounding plan etary gods are undoubtedly founded on legends which have survived in the form of graven scriptures from the First Human or First Pre-Ape period.
 Finally this race became super human and the limit of their brain ca pacity having been overreached their intelligence suddenly snapped. There is also reason to believe that they were steeped in debauchery and be- came provocative, so that when the final disaster came about their numbers were reduced to a few mil lion, residing for the most part in the warmed climes.
 Became Monkeys Again :. Following six or seven centuries, when the world was peopled by half wits who destroyed the cities they had built, pulled down the mighty civili- zation their forefathers had raised, engaged in bloody wars amongst themselves and finally became again what they had been in the beginning race of monkeys.
 "To prove the truth of this it is nec- essary only to take newborn infant and place it among monkeys for it's first 15 years. By that time it will have absorbed all the habits of apes and will be only half-human. It will never have learned the power of speech except insofar at it will chatter like monkey. It will not be as agile as monkey because it will have no