It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. - H. L. M

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. – H. L. Mencken

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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – Havelock Ellis

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages. – Source Unknown

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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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