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animal remains of thousands and thousands of years back, they were 
wanting something it would be difficult to get, for they had perished: 
ages and agesago. There had always been going on an immense 
struggle for existence, and the result of these struggles had been 
called the survival of the fittest. Im this struggle the dominant 
race entirely exterminated the inferior race. He pointed out how 
the aborigines in Australia and America were being exterminated. 
In conclusion, the speaker said, for his part, he would rather be 
descended from an animal of the noble baboon-like character 
deseribed by Darwin, than he would from some of the savages he 
Dr. Fitzgerald) had mentioned that evening. (Laughter), 
Mr. Walton said he would first of all like ask Mr. Ullyett how far 
he was prepared to go with the theory of development. He was 
aware that Darwin, in the closing passage of the ‘* Origin of Species,” 
told them that his theory would give grandeur to life, but on turning 
to later authorities, he found that they believed Darwin was then 
in error. The more recent teachers certainly did out-Darwin 
Darwin. They must remember that although Darwin did not touch 
on the origin of man in the Origin of Species, in a later publication 
he did. If they carried this theory to its legitimate conclusions, 
they could not exclude man from the argument. Then again, the 
very important point of the origin of life was bound up in the 
- theory. How, it was, asked, did life come into existence? The 
speakers for Darwin answered, ‘‘ By spontaneous generation.” 
He wished to raise these points because they seemed to spring out 
of the theory as explained by Mr. Ullyett. It was perfectly true 
that Darwin did not claim that that they were directly descended 
from the apes. There were two branches from the Lemur—one 
going off to the right and terminating in man, and the other going 
off to the left and terminating in the ape. The speaker, in the 
course of further remarks, dwelt upon the fact that such an 
enormous length of time was required for the working out of this 
grand scheme. Writers upon it spoke of millions and millions of 
_ years, and certainly they could form no adequate idea of what 
_ might or might not take place in the course of such a length of 
time. It was certain that there were races which had a_ hairy 
covering to the body, and he was well aware of the fact that the 
examination of the brain of an ape side by side with that of a man 
would disclose extremely few differences in form. But there still 
- seemed to be a wide gap between man and theape. Man waspossessed 
_ of the power of speech. When he consulted the Darwin authorities 
on this point he found that they asserted that language gave birth 
_toreason. ‘here was then a time when their ancestors had no 
_ reason because they had no language. Language in its origin was 
: -@ mere meaningless articulation, but as their ancestors became 
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