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Sirs: Horrible, nauseating, regrettable-your story in TIME, Aug. 16, of that Russian scientist's experiment on an ape. . . . One of the most primitive laws of Nature -that kind keep with kind-has been absolutely adhered to by all animal life; one specie of beast or bird or fowl does not mate with another ; it is only man who would tamper not only with Nature, but with that vaster, more mysterious force which superstition, tradition or conscience terms the Deity-at least according to the reasoning-and faith-of the majority of people this is true-those who believe...
...delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, a pre-"Fundamentalist" speech* on evolution, so scintillant and persuasive that parts of it will still bear quoting: "What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is that: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new-fangled theories...
...Ivanoff's announcement, earlier in the year (TIME, June 28), that he is to try breeding (artificially) orang-outangs with yellow, gorillas with black, and chimpanzees with white, humans, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to try to demonstrate the close relation of human and ape stocks...
Then again, in No-Ape Tennessee, Heretic John T. Scopes hearkened to alarming cries of Gospel-Truth Norris, winced under the hyperorthodoxy of the Baptist tsar from Texas. Mr. Chipps, according to Dr. Norris and his disciple, L. H. Nutt, refused to leave the parson's premises...
...same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it was decreed, and last week Manhattan publishers admitted, that biology textbooks, intended for use among God-fearing Texans, should refer to mankind's "development" and other phases of the ape-to-man theory should be toned down, by deletion or other euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text by Truman Moon of Littletown (N. Y.) High School were deleted in toto, and to save argument Author Moon was not even consulted about it. Statements like, "Evolution is a slow...