MAN AND HiS BROTHERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 5

MAN AND HiS BROTHERS.

THE ANTHROPOID APES. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. PREFERRED STRENGTH TO BBAXKS. (By Cable—Press Association.—Copjrtsfct.) LO>~DO>"\ September 6. In a paper on evolution, read before the meeting of the British Association a.t Dundee yesterday. Professor Elliott Smith said that the orang-outang, the chimpanzee, and the gorilla might be regarded not as the ancestral forms of I man, hut as unenterprising members of I man's family. These beings, he said, were simply mm whose ancestors ebose physical strength rather than intelligence "as a means of livelihood. LIFE AND ITS ORIGINS. SPIRIT AND MATTER. MEI(BOUKXE, September 6. In commenting; on the remarks made at the meeting of the British Association at Dundee, by Professor Schaefer. of Edinburgh, in regard to the origin r.i life Professor Osborne, of the Melbourne University, &aid that he thought that a majority of scientists -would be in accord with the first sta.tement of Professor Schaefer, namely, that life owed its origin to evolution. On some of the other points touched upon, he thought that biologists would be much divided. There would be violent opposition from that point of view, as well ac from that of the theologian. The statements, be said, might be taken as a reaction from the conclusions of men like Professor Henri L. Bergson. of France, who entered the physiological field without adequate equipment or training, and who had been laying down the law of the superiority of'the spirit to matter.