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STORY OF CREATION.

DARWINISTS & THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE.

MAN'S PEDIGREE.

Those of us who are seeking to truco man's history into a distant past are encompassed by the per- plexities of transition. We can trace all the changes which trans- form the human embryo into a human footus, and the foetus into à full-tima fruit; but no imper. ceptibly does tho ono stage glide into another that we cannot draw writes in the "Literary Guide":—one stage and the beginning of an- a definite line to mark the end of

Every season, sometimes oftener, women find themselves in a serious quandary. Must last season's hat be scrapped? Or is it possible, by judicial concessiona to fashion, to

Professor Sir Arthur Keith

make it continue in sorvice?

Modern clergymen, it seems to me, have to face a altuation of a somewhat like kind. Must the ac-

count of

man's first

appearance

given in Genesis be scrapped? Or in it possible, by judicious trim- ming, to make the old account fit within the new scheme of know ledge?

COST OF LIVING.

INTERESTING FIGURES FROM AUSTRALIA.

MANY, MEASURES.

The results of the investigations made under the direction of the Minister for Home and Territories other. We find it equally difficult by the Commonwealth Statistician to tell the exact point at which and Actuary (Mr. C. H. Wickens) boyhood passes into manhood, and to the prices of food and gro- girlhood into womanhood. At what ceries (46 commodities) have been point in the journey of life does old made available for the month of

October, 1927.

age set in?

Compared with the preceding In unravelling man's pedigree we month, says the report, there has meet with exactly the same kind of been an increase of 1.1 per cent. dimculty. All that we have dis- for the 30 towns considered as a covered so far concerning man's whole. Three of the States show early ancestry leads us to belleve

increases, the greatest being in that the transition from ape to man New South Wales, 3.8 por cent., has been a very gradual process. As followed by Western Australia 0.6 our knowledge of man's past In-per cent, and Queensland 0.3 per creases, the question is certain to cent. The decrease in South Aus › Clergymen are now free to choose. The recent letters exchang-line which marks the last appear followed by Tasmania 0.6 per cent. arise: Where shall we draw the tralia amounted to 1.4 per cent., ed between the Bishop of Birming ance of the ape and the first appear and Victoria 0.8 per cent. Com ham and the Archbishop of Canter- bury leave them an open course; they may treat Genesis ag un allegory or replace it altogether by Darwin's account of man's first ap- pearance. Either course is now orthodox.

ance of man?

pared with the corresponding Indeed, that problem kas already month of last year, three of the arlsen. Ever since Dr. Dubois die States show increases, the greatest covered the fossil remains Pithecanthropus in Java experts cent., followed by Victoria 5.4 per of being in New South Wales 6.6 per

have debated, often with heat, cent., and South

Australia 3 per whether that being should be re-cent. The decrease in Queensland Why is it that medical men, garded as an ape-like man or a

followed by Was 4.6 per cent., particularly those who are respon- man-like ape. The best opinion to Tasmania 2.1 per cent., and West- sible for laying their profession day places him on the very lowest upon a solid basis of fact, no longer; rung of the human ladder.

ern Australia 1.2 per cent. temporize with Genesis, but have

The weighted average index Even that big-brained inhabitant number for the 30 towns consider- acrapped this book, even as an of ancient Europe, Neanderthal ed as a whole was 1,846 in October, allegory? It la because it cannot Man, has been axcluded from the 1027, compared with 1,783 in Octo- be made to agree in any way with human family by some anatomists. ber, 1926-un increase of 3.6 per the great and growing fund of Sir Arthur Smith Woodward has cent.

knowledge which has been collected emphasised the strange attributes: The increase in cost since July, concerning the behaviour of man's of Piltdown Man by giving him a 1914, is greatest in New South body and mind, in health and in

distinctive name-Ecanthropus, disease.

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My friend, Dr. Adolphing up new and changing shoots, Toowoomba, Schultz, of Johns Hopkins' Medical the branches in another region were College, Baltimore, has discovered a withering and passing into decay. new and peculiar structure in man's The suggestion has been thrown body, to which he was guided in out that, even under an evolution- this way. Lemurs, which are the ary dispensation, man may have lowest of primates, have a little made his first appearance on earth. SIR WILLIAM HORWOOD'S brush of bristles planted among the quite suddenly and dramatically. hair of the wrist, just above the My own investigations lend no sup- palm; these little wrist-brushes are port to this auggestion. It is quite richly suppiled by nerves, and are true, as all medical men know, that sensitive to the lightest contact sudden sports do occur in human with leaf or twig. Monkeys and families. Seeing that such sports higher primates were supposed to occur in all domesticated breeds, be devoid of them-a fact which this need occasion us no surprise, trola over 25,000 men, said the com- puzzled Dr. Schultz.

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These strange human apparitions tan Police was to keen that always found that the lowest of monkeys are of many and well-defined kinds. there were 2,000 on the waiting list. have still a vestige

of the wrist- Some of them we can explain from The training was most exhausting brush, that it is present up almost what we know of the factors which and included attendance at mock police courts, where the candidates to, the time of birth in higher regulate the development and monkeys, and that a clear rudiment growth of the human body; others took the parts of prosecutor and de- fendant. He denied that promotion of it can be seen on the wrist of, we cannot yet explain, but all of depended on convictions. the human embryo-a rudiment them are certainly due to a break- A constable's duties in connection

of with certain street offences which has but a brief and passing, down in the normal course existence.

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that prostitutes Every medical student is familiar mistakes or failures, not her suc- was not aware with dozens of instances of a like. ceases. Those who have studied bribed policemen and expressed the kind. such as the temporary pre- the evolutionary history of diverse opinion that London streets had im proved enormously in the last thirty sence of a true tail, the unmistak- kinds of animal, as revealed

years. There was still a certain able appearance of gill formations fosall remains, find no evidence of amount of traffic in husbands by in the neck, and a reptilian stage audden jumps or mutations.

he

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were

He

foreign women to avoid deportation,

In the evolution of the roof of the Nay, the more we get to know of but it was nothing compared to that mouth. These may be said to be the very elaborate and precise carried on formerly. He contended points of mere theoretical or his organisation of the human brain, that the solicitation of women by men should be dealt with mors torical interest regarding man's the less do we conceive it possible severely, and disagreed with the re- body's but when we find the same that full-blown humanity appeared cent evidence of the magistrate, student studying the structure and suddenly. After all, it is his brain Mr. Mead, that prostitution was in- action of the anthropoid body to which gives man the title to evitable. Sir William considered disonse, and then applying the re- humanity: No doubt there have that prostitution should be made a sults of his inquiries to the suc-been progressive periods in the criminal offence in order to get cessful relief of human sufferings, evolution of man's brain as well as clean and decent streets. we must recognise that the doctrine others which may be regarded za

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of evolution, from being a matter stationary or even as retrograde. of theory, has become an essential. We cannot conceive the elaborate: guide to practice.

organisation of man's brain and its It was no idle whimsical mood delicately adjusted machinery which led medical men to turn away having leap into existence by any from the Biblical account of man's form of mutation. origin and to accept that of

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The Biblical account of man's origin has the brevity, simplicity, and force of dramatic narrative. On a given day and at a certain place Man made his first appear-

London, Dec. 81, ance; he rose from the dust, erect

Glamorgan's financial anxieties in and perfect in all his faculties connection with their participation What have wo Darwinists to offer in the English County Cricket in exchange for this picture? The Championship are happily solved, evolutionary narrative, even when as the £2,500 required to enable it is complete-which it is far from them to carry on has been raised. being as yet promises to be a

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