Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887: Volume 1, Number 7
Religion
Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887: Volume 1, Number 7
Medicine -- Periodicals; Phrenology -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
"Now likewise there was developed in the gigantic four-handed
Saurians such a change in the mother-pouch of the female animals
as the ever finer organized brain created, so that in the course
of thousands of years, a creature was gradually developed which
overstepped the last stage of the sense-developed understanding
and comprehension, and was in a position, through the putting
into activity of the upper and front brain, to distinguish evil
from good and to think independently. Of these creatures,
likewise, only those survive that had in themselves the capacity
for further development, while the rest perished. The survivors
were the original men; those that perished formed the
intermediate link between man and the brute. Thus, out of the
infinite efforts of nature to create a finer organized species
from the four-handed Saurians, came forth not only men, but the
failures, the apes. So man does not descend from the ape, but
both have only one stock, which is the four-handed animals
sprung from the flesh-devouring Saurians.
"Thus we can settle whence man comes and how he arose, but that
does not solve the problem whence comes life or how it arose,
yet on this point I will give place to friend Spurzheim.
"Dr. Spurzheim then took control and spoke over half an hour in
his peculiarly striking, logical and convincing way, yet it is
quite impossible to repeat this discourse as it was given. It
ran about as follows:
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