THEOSOPHY, Vol. 24, No. 4, February, 1936 (Pages 157-160; Size:
12K) (Number 63 of a 103-part series) SCIENCE AND THE SECRET
DOCTRINE WAR IN SCIENTIFIC OLYMPUS THE tangle of inverted truths
as to the underlying causes of evolution in general, in which
science finds itself enmeshed, holds sway equally in the
particular of man's own origin. The original Darwinian picture
was quite simple; man and ape were co-descendants of some "ape-
like" form -- Darwin in at least one writing, did call it an
"ape" outright; and man reached his present form and status by a
ladder of consecutive descent which could be easily established
if only geological research would be kind in furnishing the
necessary specimens. In course of time the specimens were found.
It is true that there were many disconcerting discrepancies of
skull-forms and geological strata, such evidence as was definite
at all running fifty-per-cent contrary to the theory. The theory
of course could not be hindered by such trivialities, and two
devices, as clever