The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

82 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
of a cell, but merely that of a cytod; for, as iti the
case of all monera, the little lump of protoplasm did
not as yet possess a cell-kernel. The first of these
monera orig-inated in the beg-inning- of the Laurentian
period, by spontaneous generation, or archiog^eny,
out of so-called 'inorganic combinations,' namely, out
of simple combinations of carbon, oxyg-en, hydrogen
and nitrog-en/'
iHneckel.]
xVccording- to Ilaeckel, from this "first ancestral
stage" the progenitors of man evolved througdi the
hsh and finvl and beast, to reach the "twenty-third
ancestreil stage" in the anthropoids, or man-like apes,
the g-ibbon, ourang-, chimpanzee and gorilla. Describing
what he terms the "twenty-fourth
stag-e," Mr. Haeckel says:
.jiicestral
"Althoug-h the preceding- ancestral stage is
already so nearly akin to genuine men that we scaicely
require to assume an intermediate connecting- stage,
still we can look upon the speechless primanal men
[alali]
as this intermediate link. These
or Pithecanthropi, very probably
ape-like men,
existed toward the
end of the tertiary period. They originated out of
the man-like apes, or anthropoids., by becoming completely
habituated to an uprij^ht
walk and 1>v the corresponding
stronger dilTerentiation of 1)otli pairs of
legs.
The lore hand of the anthropoids became the
human hand; their hinder hand became a foot for
Vvalking. We may, therefore, (listing*uis1i a special
[24th J stage iu the series of our human ancestors,