This Simian World

The staunch evolutionist Clarence Day offers a humorous look at the human condition and seeks to make the case for evolution of man from apes. He opines, "If we had been made directly from clay, the way it says in the Bible, and had therefore inherited no intermediate characteristics,—if a god, or some principle of growth, had gone that way to work with us, he or it might have molded us in much more splendid forms. But considering our simian descent, it has done very well…