CONTENTS. 



Introduction, . D age 1 



PART I. 



THE DESCENT OR ORIGIN OF MAN. 

 CHAPTER I. 



THE EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM. 



Nature of the Evidence bearing on the Origin of Man. — Homologous struct- 

 ures in Man and the Lower Animals. — Miscellaneous Points of Corre- 

 spondence. — Development. — Rudimentary Structures, Muscles, Sense- 

 organs, Hair, Bones, Reproductive Organs, etc. — The Bearing of these 

 three great Classes of Facts on the Origin of Man, . . . p. 9 



CHAPTER II. 



COMPARISON OF THE MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. 



The Diiference in Mental Power "between the Highest Ape and the Lowest 

 Savage, immense. — Certain Instincts in common. — The Emotions. — 

 Curiosity. — Imitation. — Attention. — Memory. — Imagination. — Reason. 

 — Progressive Improvement. — Tools anct Weapons used by Animals. 

 — Language. — Self-Consciousness.— Sense of Beauty. — Belief in God, 

 Spiritual Agencies, Superstitions, . . . . . . p. 33 



CHAPTER HI. 



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 

 conquer other less Persistent Instincts. — The Social Virtues alone re- 



