Is the most perfect animal an ape?

Significant differences can be pointed out between Australopithecus through Homo habilis, and Homo erectus, and the old and present day apes which indicate that our physical ancestors were not just ordinary apes but more. No ape today stands completely erect whereas significant bipedalism and the erect posture were already demonstrated by these direct physical ancestors. Considerable increase in brain size turned it into a thinking animal which no animal of today is yet able to achieve. The fact that it could even gather provides evidence of the real advancement of this animal. In other words, this animal was indeed many steps above the present day apes. First it was bipedal, secondly it hunted and gathered, thirdly it made tools both for its defence and for hunting and continually improved upon these.

These are all evidences that these animals could not have been anything but the best that the animistic was able to bring forth in the world of matter and that the existence of this type of animal at all must be regarded as transitional and forming the basis for the entrance of man. The most perfect animal therefore is not in the same category as the present day apes but stood in a class of its own. The great apes of today of which we have the gorillas, the chimpanzee and the orang-utan could not have evolved from these highest animal since one could not imagine a backward evolution since our direct physical ancestors were far more advanced than the most advanced present-day ape. Therefore, the apes of today and our direct physical ancestors must have developed in a branching off from a much lower animal. One going in the line of these our physical ancestors and the other in the line of the great apes. These animals therefore stand on their own and must be seen as direct physical ancestors of human beings.

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