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Hottentots.)—Fleecy-haired (Caffres, Negroes).—Straight-haired 
Men, or Lissotrichi.—Stiff-haired (Australians, Malays, Mongols, 
Arctic, and American Tribes).—Curly-haired (Dravidas, Nubians, 
Midlanders).—Number of Population.—Primeval Home of Man 
(South Asia, or Lemuria).—Nature of Primeval Men.—Number of 
Primeval Languages (Monoglottists and Polyglottists).—Divergence 
and Migration of the Human Race.—Geographical Distribution of 
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CHAPTER XXIV. 
OBJECTIONS AGAINST, AND PROOFS OF THE TRUTH 
THE THEORY OF DESCENT. 
Objections to the Doctrine of Filiation Objections of Faith and 
Reason.—Immeasurable Length of the Geological Periods.—Transi- 
ion Forms between Kindred Species._Dependence of Stability of 
Form on Inheritance, and of the Variability of Form on Adaptation.— 
Origin of very Complicated Arrangement of Organisation.— Gradual 
Development of Instincts and Mental Activities.—Origin of 4 priori 
Knowledge from Knowledge 4 posteriori—The Knowledge requisite 
for the Correct Understanding of the Doctrine of Filiation.—Neces- 
sary Interaction between Empiricism and Philosophy.—Proofs of the 
Theory of Descent.—Inner Causal-Connection between all the Bio- 
logical Series of Phenomena.—The Direct Proof of the Theory of 
Selection—Relation of the Theory of Descent to Anthropology.— 
Proofs of the Animal Origin of Man.—The Pithecoid Theory as an 
Inseparable Part of the Theory of Descent.—Induction and Deduc- 
tion.—Gradual Development of the Human Mind.—Body and Mind. 
—Human Soul and Animal Soul.—A Glance at the Future sat 
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