SERMONS IN NUTS . THE SIMIAN PHILOSOPHER : No , my child , never speak slightingly of Evolution . It is merely through evolutionary development that we have acquired those higher moral faculties which make it possible for us to luxuriate behind nice iron bars - bars , by the way , that completely shut out Lord Devonport and the Capitalists . Indeed , were it not for our higher evolutionary status it would not be the function of poor primitive mankind to come to us , bearing nuts , thus making it unnecessary for us to leave home when we wish to study the lower mammalia . ( Some tempers having been lost over the Ape - like Man controversy , our Cartoonist intervenes ( like the Angel of Peace he is ) with a little arrant nonsense ) Drawing by Will Dyson , an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist , well known for his socialist viewpoint . 1910s