Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 20: February, 1906 We will let the theory pass as probable, although we think that it will be difficult to designate any definite locality as the place Of the origin Of man, for it seems that a change Of surroundings may repeatedly have taken place and this would have favored a higher development, new conditions demanding new adaptations and elicit ing thereby new faculties. Lemuria must have been large enough and its geography varied enough to have been a territory in which the first man-ape could have appeared, while the higher develop ment Of the race seems to have taken place farther north in Central Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.