Man in the Light of Evolution 



emergencies. Thus in many respects the animal 

 mind is a crude type or dim prophecy of the 

 human. 



Said Professor Huxley : " Man now stands as 

 on a mountain top far above the level of his 

 humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser 

 nature by reflecting here and there a ray from 

 the infinite source of truth. And thoughtful 

 man, once escaped from the blinding influences 

 of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly 

 stock whence man has sprung the best evidence 

 of the splendor of his capacities, and will dis- 

 cern in his long progress through the past a 

 reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of 

 a nobler future." ^ 



The lofty plane of life on which man lives 

 and moves is the result of his higher intellectual 

 as well as of his moral and religious instincts, 

 thoughts, purposes, and powers. His higher 

 intellectual and his moral powers are evidently 

 due to the fact that he is a social being living in 

 some sort of family life. Our first question is: 

 Are family and society artificial and conscious 

 human inventions, as it were? This question 

 will occupy us in the next chapter. 



1 Huxley, T. H., "Man's Place in Nature." Chap. 11. 



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