"Man is divine. God has made man in His own image.'

"I said, 'Then what about the cow? The monkey is an animal. You cannot accept that man evolves out of monkeys but you go on calling the cow your mother. Isn't the cow an animal?'

"And, moreover, you reject the bull, the poor bull, who has done no harm to you except given you birth – without the bull the cow cannot be your mother. You should be all-grateful to the bull. You became angry on that point; now you are denying Charles Darwin's theory simply because monkeys are animals – but what about the cow? Can't you see such a simple logic? Then only one thing remains – which will be very absurd.'

"He said, 'What? Nothing can be more absurd than Charles Darwin's theory.'

"I said, 'You just wait. The cow is the mother, and the monkey is the father and man is a cross-breed. It is not that I am saying it – it is you who should say it, but you are not capable of any intelligence. This is a simple thing. You have the mother; the father is missing – the bull is not acceptable. Charles Darwin has the father; the mother is missing. That is very strange of Charles Darwin too, that he talks about the male monkeys becoming man. Then who became the woman? Very strange – what about the female monkeys?

"'Charles Darwin nowhere mentions female monkeys. It is strange, a man who continually worked on the theory must have come across the question that, okay, the monkey becomes the man, but who becomes the woman? Female monkeys must become women, but there is no reference to them in Charles Darwin's books. So the monkeys are our forefathers and cows are our foremothers.

"'I don't know whether such a word exists or not and I don't care either – I have never come across such a word as foremothers; but if forefathers makes sense, then foremothers also makes sense.'

"He was so angry that he said, 'You will never talk sense.'

"I said, 'What can be more sensible? Man is a cross-breed – all the qualities of the cow, and all the qualities of the monkey."