Monkeys Quotes
Actually no school teaches that. What they did teach when covering Evolution was that some modern apes (chimpanzees and bonobos) and humans were both descended from a common ancestor. The Congressman was at that point an evangelical Christian fundamentalist, Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
This quotation in interesting in that the notion of species descending from other species was known to French intellectuals even before Darwin. Specifically the relationship between man and monkeys had their attention. Voltaire had a strong concept of evolutionary possibilities and the importance of time in the process. He assumed monkeys would evolve further and take on many of the attributes of man. Of course he did not realize that there were common ancestors shared by man and monkeys, and man is what the monkey ancestors had evolved to and the monkeys had evolved to their present form which was all they needed to thrive in their environment. He did not realize that evolution is not necessarily in an upward direction of human like capability other than the ability to survive and thrive.
