The New York herald., 1922-03-19

u the tide Of his book sr.
~ McCann is unquestionably
against the gorilla. Let the Breathitt
county mountaineers and the Ken
lucky legislators quibble over eyoiu-
ton. let William j. Bryan disclaim
the Jelly fish of the paleozoic seas, let
Bernard Shaw pull the neck Of the
giraffe and Prof. Henry Osborn
decorate the Hall OF the Age OF Man
with plaster casts. Mr.. NcCann will
still have his strong and fearless
convictions against the descent Of
man from the ape. For him the
theories have been overworied. or,
as he expresses il. + evolution is
indeed a fact. "the evoluticnists
themselves have done more than
show il cannot BE- i fact"
Unlike many other obiectors Mr
MoCann does not place the blame for
the misrepresentations which have
grown up regarding the origin Of
rnan so much upon Darwin as on
the learned Ignorant Who talk as
slioiy as if they knew what they
we're talking about He quotes
with a fine display of italics from
the philosophers Descent ot Man"
But we must not fall into the error
Of supposing that the early proseni-
tors of man were identical with OF
even closely resernbled any existing
ape or monkey"
Mr.. McCann deals not - gently
with Haeckel He marshals against
this German scientist all his bat
teries to show him guilty Of faisifi-
cations and "a specialist in fraud
and forgeries-" He declares that
Haeckei knew he was not making a
truthful statement when he said
that within the last twenty years
web preserved fossil skeletons of
suthropoid and other apes have been
discovered and that among them
are all the important intermediate
forms which constitute series of an
cestors connecting the Oldest an
thropoid apes with man
Says Mr.. McCann, when Haecflel
wrote that passage he knew that
not ouIy was there no sucl series
in existence but that there was not
a single fossil fragment Of a series
IN existence. III the eyolutionists
cannot depend on Haeckei in whom
can they trust? As well may they
gather up their bones and play
things and so home
rhe author enters into the very
heart OK the controversy when he
calls for the much discussed missing
Ink n there Is a higher type" as
eYolutionists claim, where Is ~ II
there il tail or a part OF a tail Or
no tau why do not the eyolutionists
produce il? He considers - J sinSu-
larly forced subterfuse the expisna-
tion that although the ancestors Of
man lived partly among trees and
forests they lived chiefly on the
ground where they were entombed
by foods ard sandstorms.
IL il E a fact that thus we're en-
tombed ali the fossil remains oi are
man and subman how docs it hap
pen that there were spared The fos-
sii remains of the countless scores Of
sn aIler animals now on exhibition
ia all the museums of the wor,dF'
To this poser the evolutionist rsjoins
that there are in existence some of
the most conclusive evidence IN the
world; for example. the remains of
the Trina ape man Then Mr. Me
Cam calls attention 70 the state
nnent from a Smithsonian puhiica-
tio, % the effect that an thus far
that has been furnished % the
scientific world Of these remains is
a cast OF the skull cap and sew ral
not satisfactory Illustrations And
not only the study but even d view
OF the originals are denied 70
scientific men
This whole matter Of ineNpfiet-
hgs secrecy appears 10 arouse Mr..
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