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...Swinburne on Emerson: "A gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own . . . fouling...
...Four weeks: The baby acts like a tiny tree ape, lashing his arms, clenching his fists. He lies mostly on his side with his head turned, one arm extended, the other flexed. He turns his head and eyes through an arc of 90° to look at rings and rattles, listen to a bell. When the doctor tries to pull him up, his head sags back...
This was the doctrine which German scientists were asked to swallow. Nazi scientific papers even attacked the theory of evolution, as the Church had a generation earlier, by printing pictures of ugly ape men and demanding whether Aryans, let alone that super Aryan, Adolf Hitler, could have had such ancestors. Editors of Nazi scientific papers announced that there was no room for the paleontologists' rubble heaps and old bones in the New Order. Science writers, feeling themselves full of cataclysmic creativeness, flexed their muscles in the Teuton's chronic, frantic urge to achieve Supermanliness. Perhaps the most effective...
Died. Professor Eugene Dubois, 82, Dutch anthropologist who in 1891 found the first skull of the Java ape man, concluded he had discovered the "missing link," called it Pithecanthropus erectus; in Haelen, Belgium. Dr. Dubois's find started the '905' hottest scientific controversy, from which, for reasons of piety, he suddenly withdrew, locking up his fossils from the world's sight until 1926. Thereafter, despite important new evidence, he held that Java Man was no more than an early ape...
...environment is not everything. A wolf, or even an ape, reared in the Rev. Singh's orphanage would not attain a human personality...