CHAP. xxiv. f TRANSMUTATION AS AN HYPOTHESIS. 471 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN 

 OF MAN, AND HIS PLACE IN THE CREATION. 



WHETHER MAN CAN BE REGARDED AS AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE 

 IF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION BE EMBRACED FOR THE REST 



OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM ZOOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF MAN TO OTHER 



MAMMALIA SYSTEMS OF CLASSIFICATION TERM QUADRUMANOUS, 



WHY DECEPTIVE WHETHER THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN BRAIN 

 ENTITLES MAN TO FORM A DISTINCT SUB-CLASS OF THE MAMMALIA 

 INTELLIGENCE OF THE LOWER ANIMALS COMPARED TO THE IN 

 TELLECT AND REASON OF MAN GROUNDS ON WHICH MAN HAS 



BEEN REFERRED TO A DISTINCT KINGDOM OF NATURE IMMATERIAL 



PRINCIPLE COMMON TO MAN AND ANIMALS NON-DISCOVERY OF IN 

 TERMEDIATE LINKS AMONG FOSSIL ANTHROPOMORPHOUS SPECD3S 



HALLAM ON THE COMPOUND NATURE OF MAN, AND HIS PLACE IN 



THE CREATION GREAT INEQUALITY OF MENTAL ENDOWMENT IN 



DIFFERENT HUMAN RACES AND INDIVIDUALS DEVELOPED BY VARIATION 

 AND ORDINARY GENERATION HOW FAR A CORRESPONDING DIVERGENCE 

 IN PHYSICAL STRUCTURE MAY RESULT FROM THE WORKING OF THE 

 SAME CAUSES CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



SOME of the opponents of transmutation, who are well 

 versed in Natural History, admit that though that doc 

 trine is untenable, it is not without its practical advantages 

 as a ' useful working hypothesis,' often suggesting good ex 

 periments and observations, and aiding us to retain in the 

 memory a multitude of facts respecting the geographical 

 distribution of genera, and species, both of animals and 

 plants, and the succession in time of organic remains, and 

 many other phenomena which, but for such a theory, would 

 be wholly without a common bond of relationship. 



It is in fact conceded by many eminent zoologists and 



