e of a low-grade man, three insisted that they belonged to a
high ape, of a type somewhat higher than any we know to-day, but still
distinctly an ape. Six members of the committee of twelve agreed that
the remains were those of a creature higher than an ape and lower than
any normal man, and represented, in their opinion, a stage distinctly
along the line of development out of the apes and into man.

This so-called "Java find" is known in science by the name of
Pithecanthropus, which means the ape-man. Whether we look upon this
fossil as a serious find or not, it is very certain that in the caves
of Europe belonging to the Quaternary period we find abundant
evidences of primitive man. The older these evidences are, the more
likely they are to be distinctly below the grade of man of to-day, in
the size and shape of the brain case and in the length and massiveness
of the jaw.

There are probably more races than one represented among these skulls.
Some of them are surely well-deserving of the title of low brow. Their
heavy ridges over the eyes, their small foreheads, their massive,
heavy-set jaws show a race of men far less endowed mentally and much
better endowed in the matter of brute force than the men of to-day.
These skeletons, or parts of skeletons, are turning up every year, and
we are just beginning to know much about them. Capable men are
studying them with much care. The next fifty years may not improbably
make the history of the ascent of man as clear as is now that of the
horse, to which we shall refer later.

The whole question of the descent of man from the lower animals, or
his ascent from them, as Drummond aptly termed it, is to most people
so entirely repugnant as to set them at once, and finally, against all
willingness to consider the question of Evolution. This, however, does
not solve the problem. Even though truth be horribly unpalatable, it
is still to be believed if it is only the truth. There is practically
no doubt left among scientific men of the origin of man in lower
forms. The evidences grow more and more complete year by year, and
from every line of investigation. Whether we study his anatomy, his
embryology, his history, his language, or his civilization, all
indications point in the same direction. Constant discoveries indicate
the fact of an enormously long development from a very humble form. If
this proves to be true and remains unpalatable, the fault lies in the
palate and not in the