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EVOLUTION AND ANIMAL LlFti 



poses nature. Here they are side by side, god and devil, mind and 

 matter, king and conspirator, belt and spasm riding peacefully to- 

 gether in the eye and brain of every man. — Emerson. 



The ape is this rough draft of man. Mankind have their gradations 

 as well as the other productions of the globe. There are a prodigious 

 number of continued links between the most perfect man and the 

 ape. — John Wesley. 



One of the most important results of Darwin's studies of 

 the origin of species has been the complete change in the philo- 

 sophical conception of man. We no longer think of the human 

 race as a completed entity in the midst of Nature, but apart 



Fig. 279. — Skulls of man and the orang-utan: 1, skull of a seven-year-old German 

 child; 2, skull of an Australian from Murray Kiver; 3, skull of young orang-utan; 

 4, skull of a grown orang-utan. (After Wiedersheim; one-sixth natural size.) 



from it, with a different origin, a different motive, a different 

 destiny. Man is like the other species, an inhabitant of the earth , 

 a product of the laws of life; his characters are phases in the 

 long process of change and adaptation to which all organisms 

 are subject. From the point of view of zoology, the human 

 race is a group of closely allied species, or subspecies, undoubte^l- 



