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Man if he had never been anything else but Man ; while 

 on the other hand, they are such as would be shown if 

 Man's immediate ancestors had been, as Darwin states, 

 " hairy, tailed quadrupeds, probably arboreal in their 

 habits.'' 



Putting aside, however, for the moment, the question 

 of the development of the race, it cannot be said that 

 Man is always Man in his individual history. The ovum 

 from which he proceeds " is about tIt of an inch in 

 diameter, and miiiht be described in the same terms as 

 that of the dog ; it is very long before the body of the 

 voung human being can be readily discriminated from that 

 of the young puppy ; " then for a period of foetal develop- 

 ment it resembles that of an ape ; and '" it is only quite in 

 the later stages of development that the young human 

 being presents marked differences from the young ape."* 



Man is not truly Man, then, until he has passed these 

 stages in his individual history. That such stages have to be 

 passed through in the development of every human being 

 is inexplicable if Man has always been Man : in such case 

 he should commence life as Man, with every organ, brain, 

 heart, limbs, etc., complete, though minute. 



On the other hand, it is what would be expected if Man 

 has only lately become Man, and if his ancestors, starting 

 from a unicellular organism, have gradually developed to 

 become Man in successive generations. 



A short reference may now be made to a paper read 

 before this Club some seven years ago, and published in 

 its Proceedings (Vol. X. p. 258. 1892). Therein was 

 dealt with the Law of Earlier Inheritance — that if an 

 organism with a character, say, A throughout the greater 

 part of life, develops a character b in maturity, then in 

 successive generations the character b will tend to appear 



* Huxley, "Man's Place in Nature," p. 67 ; London, 1863. 

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