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exterior to the earth and that it is an terior to our world.” M. Gaston Bonnier, French scientist: “ As for transmutation it is not scientifi cally demonstrated either as concerns the passage of one species to another or as concerns the inheritance of acquired characteristics.” Dr. Traas, thé Paleontologist: “ The idea that mankind is descended from any Simian species whatever, is certain ly the most foolish ever put forth by man writing on the history of man. It should be handed down to posterity as a new edition of the Memorial on Hu man Follies. No proof of this baroque theory can be given from discovered fossils.” Professor Elie de Cyon, University of St. Petersburg: “ The theory that mar vellous operations involved in the trans mutation of species, are to be explained solely by the accidents for the struggle for existence is the most preposterous conception that has been brought for ward since the days of Empedocles. . . Let us have the courage to con fess that we have not up to the present time advanced a single step toward the solution of this problem.” The late Professor Virchow, of Ber lin, the highest German authority in physiology: “ The attempt to find the transition from animal to man has end ed in total failure. The middle link has not been found and never will be. It has been proved beyond doubt that during the last five thousand years there has been no noticeable change in mankind.” Professor Flelschmann, of Erlangen: “ The Darwinian theory of descent has in the realms of nature not a single fact to confirm it. It is not the result of scientific research, but purely the product of the imagination.” Professor Haeckel, Germany’s great est biologist, the rankest naturalistic evolutionist, bewailed the fact that he DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS!
nature of which anything is known. There is no evidence that man has de scended from, or is, or was, in any way specially related to, any other organism in nature through evolution or by any other process. In support of all natur alistic conjectures concerning man’s origin, there is not at this time a shadow of scientific evidence.” Professor John Tyndall: “ If asked whether science has solved or is likely in our day to solve the problem of the universe, I shake my head in doubt. Those who hold the doctrine of evolu tion are by no means ignorant of the uncertainty of their data and they only yield to it a provisional assent.” Francis M. Balfour, a biologist and professor of animal morphology, at Cambridge: “ All scientific facts con tradict the crude ideas of those so-call ed naturalists who state that one species can be transmuted into another in the course of generations.” St. George Mivert, late professor of biology in the University College, at Kensington: “ With regard to the con ception as put forth by Mr. Darwin I cannot truly characterize it except by an epithet I employ with great reluc tance. I weigh my words and have pres ent in my mind the many distinguished naturalists who have accepted the no tion, and yet I cannot call it anything but a puerile hypothesis.” Sir Charles Bell, professor of the Uni versity College of London: “ Every thing declares the species to have their origin in a distinct creation, not in a gradual variation from some original type.” Stanislas Meunier of the Paris Mu seum: “ Doubtless we cannot usefully risk any hypothesis on the mechanism of. the production of living things; but it is perhaps a step in advance to come to the conclusion that the cause of life and its manifestations on the earth is
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