Charles Darwin (1957)

From the September 1957 issue of the Socialist Standard

“It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known; but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

“Professor Huxley (T. H.) has conclusively shown that in every visible character man differs less from the higher apes than these do from the lower members of the same order of Primates.”

Charles Darwin

Introduction to The Descent of Man, John Murray, 1901.