320 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [CHAP. 



body was created in a manner different in kind from that 

 by which the bodies of other animals were created ; or (2) 

 that it was created in a similar manner to theirs. 



One of the authors of the Darwinian theory, indeed, con- 

 tends that even as regards man's body, an action took place 

 different from that by which brute forms were evolved. 

 Mr. Wallace l considers that " Natural Selection " alone 

 could not have produced so large a brain in the savage, in 

 possessing which he is furnished with an organ beyond his 

 needs. Also that it could not have produced that peculiar 

 distribution of hair, especially the nakedness of the back, 

 which is common to all races of men, nor the peculiar con- 

 struction of the feet and hands. He says, 2 after speaking 

 of the prehensile foot, common without a single exception 

 to all the apes and lemurs, " it is difficult to see why the 

 prehensile power should have been taken away " by the 

 mere operation of Natural Selection. " It must certainly 

 have been useful in climbing, and the case of the baboons 

 shows that it is quite compatible with terrestrial locomo- 

 tion. It may not be compatible with perfectly easy erect 

 locomotion; but, then, how can we conceive that early 

 man, as an animal, gained anything by purely erect loco- 

 motion ? Again, the hand of man contains latent capaci- 

 ties and powers which are unused by savages, and must 

 have been even less used by palaeolithic man and his still 

 ruder predecessors. It has all the appearance of an organ 

 prepared for the use of civilized man, and one which was 

 required to render civilization possible." Again, speaking 

 of the "wonderful power, range, flexibility and sweetness 

 of the musical sounds producible by the human larynx/' he 

 adds, " The habits of savages give no indication of how this 



1 See "Natural Selection," pp. 332 to 360. 2 Loc. cit., p. 349. 



