Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. Diaries 1918-1932 (№ 320648)

The librarian Pavlov (...) on Easter night, got into tea in Kvashenko, where the mass collected men, and suddenly began to lecture about the origin of man from apes. The effect, they say, was extraordinary, like the old men even got carried away and was late to mass. One, by the way, after hearing the lecture, sent a note with the question: "If man comes from apes, then why is currently are born from monkeys only monkeys, not humans, why now it has stopped."