CONTENTS. 



Introduction Pa«;e 1-5 



PART I. ^>\CA/ 



ON THE DESCENT OF MAN. /v> rt oS a, 



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CHAPTER I. , J L16R AR 



The Evidence of the Descent op man from Wfe\ ^k***'**' 



Lower Form. \<xV^7/ 

 Nature of the evidence bearing on the origin of man — Homb^g^^s ^ | 

 structures in man and the lower animals — Miscellaneous pomt 

 of correspondence — Development — Eudimentary structures, 

 muscles, sense-organs, hair, hones, reproductive organs, &c. — 

 The bearing of these three great classes of facts on the origin of 

 man 9-33 



CHAPTER II. 



Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the 



Lower Animals. 



The difference in mental power between the highest ape and the 

 lowest savage, immense — Certain instincts in common — The 

 emotions — C uriosity — Imitation — Attention — Mem ory — Ima- 

 gination — Keason — Progressive improvement — Tools and 

 weapons used by animals — Language — Self-consciousness — 

 Sense of beauty — Belief in God, spiritual agencies, superstitions 



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CHAPTER III. 



Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the 

 Lower Animals — continued. 



The moral sense — Fundamental proposition — The qualities of social 

 animals — Origin of sociability — Struggle between opposed in- 

 stincts — Man a social animal — The more enduring social instincts 



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