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not fashioned out of clay or after God's image ; 

 originally naked, savage rayenoiis, lustful, un- 

 sympathetic and revengeful, he has never ret- 

 rograded, but at all times in one portion of the 

 world or another has steadily advanced, raising 

 himself ethically and intellectually throughout 

 the course of the ages entirely without the aid 

 of supernatural revelation or divine assistance, 

 simply by his own increasing Reason and that 

 Experience which so admirably cultiures the 

 tender flowers of Morality while eradicating 

 the hardy weeds of Vice ; and also by his own 

 persistent efforts stimulated by Education, — 

 but always, though more or less hairy and un- 

 couth, he was, nevertheless, essentially Man. 



And as such he cannot but remain. 



I am well aware. Ladies and Gentlemen, 

 when I make the broad statement that Man 

 and the Ape are co- descended from some pri- 

 mary type, that there is little resemblance in 

 face or figure between the nude forms of the 

 symmetrical, pleasing, beautiful Apollo and 

 Venus that the surpassing art of Apelles and 

 Praxiteles has richly bequeathed to us and 

 the ungainly, loathly and ugly contour of the 

 Simian tribes ; but remember that it is not to 

 the higher evolutions of Man nor to the low- 



