EVOLUTION OF MAN

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 3

EVOLUTION OF MAN

LECTURE BY JOSEPH M'CABE.

The eminent nationalist .writer and lecturer, Mr. Joseph M'Cabe, gave his second address in the Concert Chamber last evening, the subject being "The Evolution of Man." The Hon. J. M'Gregor was in the chair.

The lecturer admitted that" there wero no remains whatever of early man, and even the uncouth forms • displayed to them represented man after a million years. That there were no remains was not to be wondered at, since unless buried in a particular position they melted away into their elements. Thus it was that in beds of clay there survived traces of. another age. There were hundreds of useless muscles and organs in tho human body, which would bind people to accept the evolution theory, maintained the speaker, in developing the physiological proofs of mall's descent. He illustrated the organs, and staled that they existed alike in man and in ape. There were two classes of the apo family, and scientists did not maintain that man was descended from a monkey, but had come from ,a common source. Gradually, as circumstances forced the apes from the trees to the earth, there had evolved such, a being as the world-famous ape man of Java, who, if anything, was "The Missing Link.". There was 50 per cent, more brain tissue in such a being than in the ape, and 50 per cent, less than in the human being. ■ The speaker, in conclusion, touched' briefly upon 'the three . great civilisations, in Crete,-in Egypt, and in Babylonia, and referred, to evidence and produced exhibits in' connection with his subject. .

.; To-night, in the Town Hall Concert Chamber, Mr. M'Cabe will continue his illustrated: lectures, when he will lecture on the subject of "The Imposture of Spiritualism." He .will have something to say about spirit photographs and reply to assertions made recently by Sir A. Conan Doyle. Subsequeut lectures will take place on 25th and 26th July.