66 Mans Kinship with the Apes. 



plained only on the assumption that man is de 

 scended from some lower animal in which these 

 rudiments were useful. But in monkeys many 

 of the same parts are in a rudimentary condition ; 

 hence, monkeys will have a genealogy similar to 

 man s. JL^ fourthly, embiyologists have shown 

 that in the early stages of its existence the young 

 human being goes through the same development 

 as the young ape, and in the later stage, if 

 marked differences appear, the human being is 

 not more unlike the dog than the ape is. 



Man, then, must be ranked in the same order 

 with the apes. The whole simian stock, includ 

 ing man, has sprung from the same progenitors. 

 And the structure and condition of this common 

 ancestor may even now be dimly discerned by 

 anyone who can interpret the human and simian 

 characteristics we have just mentioned. Such an 

 observer would discover that the early progeni 

 tor of man was a hairy, tailed quadruped, proba 

 bly arboreal in his habits, and a denizen of 

 some warm, forest- clad land in the Old World. 

 But behind this Adam even there is a pre-\ 

 Adamite. If we look still farther back in the dim VI 

 recesses of time, we shall see the genealogical line t ^ 

 running through a long series of diversified forms v) 

 of marsupial, of reptile, of fish, to an ultimate 



