First Sentence

"THE object of this book is to bring before the public such further facts and values regarding the Evolution of Man as have been discovered subsequent to the publication of the "Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man"-first edition published in June 1910, second edition published May 1913-and also to demonstrate that the contention set forth in that publication is, in its entirety, correct: namely, that the Pigmy was the primary Homo, evolved from a Pithecanthropus Erectus, or Anthropoid Ape, in Africa over a million years ago."