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Modern man, always looking for the elusive "missing link" (more properly, a common ancestor of apes and men), has been digging up these fossils for a quarter of a century. With each new find he has been thinking a little better of his second cousins, 50,000 times removed...
...scheme of the book, represents innocence and freshness, the potentiality of Southern white manhood unspoiled by ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race but proud of it," he suggests the reserve and strength of a people inured to suffering and unshakable in its self...
...young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae, the Romans entrusted their fortunes to one Fabius Maximus, later known as Cunctator-the Delayer, because he made Hannibal chase him around Italy for eight years. He was Vittorio's ancestor. Now that the Arsolians brought him their troubles, Vittorio realized that something just as bad as Hannibal was at Arsoli's gates...
...fossils led to a revolutionary theory that modern man was descended from a giant rather than a pygmy predecessor. Aided by discoveries of Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, he revamped the chronology of human evolution, placed the huge Gigantopithecus (450-550,000 years old) as man's earliest known ancestor...
...time of Ching Ming, the Pure Brightness Festival. Throughout the land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...