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Origination of the Human Race117

human thigh-bone (left) and two molar teeth which he claimed to belong to an animal midway between anthropoid apes and man. This skull-cap has been much discussed by biologists; six authorities have held the skull to be human; six have decided it to be simian, i.e., to belong to a man-like ape, while eight have concluded that it is intermediate, i.e., a missing link.

     “Meanwhile the Darwinian Theory of the origin of species is fast losing credit. H. Reinheimer, after a re-examination of Darwin's arguments, concludes “that neither philosopy, nor physiology, nor polaeontology, lend countenance to Darwin's theory of “Natural Selection.’. Reinheimer finds that evolutionary progress is not due to competition but to co-operation, not to struggle for existence but to symbiosis........................... The cardinal necessity of life is not so much for the organism to fit itself merely expediently to any and every new condition, but rather to strike towards the achievement of the purpose of life by obedience to some sublime law of inter-dependence and of inter-determination............ Many monsters of the past have played for anti-social self-aggrandisement to their own extinction, and the existing types that play a ‘lone hand’ are penalized in many more ways than has hitherto been thought of. Intense individualism, although abundantly evident, is what one might term a ‘back number’. But co-operation is in the line of success, it, so to speak, expresses the soul of things, and we must learn to estimate the morality of nature by its main tendency, not by its occasional deviations.” In other words, as the rishis of old taught, love and self sacrifice underlie creation and are the law of progress.

      “Other objections to Darwinism are not lacking. The facts with regard to heredity discovered by Father Mendel and his followers cannot be reconciled with the assumption of the constant appearance of spontaneous small variations by Darwin. Moreover, anti-Darwinians are pointing out that the geologists whom Darwin easily made slaves of his theory, have based their interpretations of the evidence of rocks, not on their physical relations but on the evolutionary hypothesis. Ever since Lyell, after a long struggle,