196 DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION 



and the highest ape than we have been accustomed 

 to suppose. 



Thus in general terms, it can justly be said that 

 process of evolution which developed the first man from 

 its ape-man progenitor seems to have continued during 

 subsequent ages. Spreading out in diverging lines of 

 evolutionary descent no less clearly than they have in 

 geographical respects, certain races have far surpassed 

 their fellows of a lower order, which, like the brute 

 pygmy, remain nearer the common structural form from 

 which all men have sprung. 



