HUXLEY AND VOGT. lOI 



theory to Man was made by Huxley, who now holds the 

 first place among English zoologists.^^ This able and 

 learned philosopher, to whom much progress in zoological 

 science is due, published a little work entitled "Evidences 

 of Man's Place in Nature," in the year 1863, contain- 

 ing three essays : 1. On the Natural History of Man- 

 like Apes ; 2. On the Relations of Man to the Lower 

 Animals ; 3. On Some Fossil Remains of Man. In these 

 three very important and interesting essays, it is clearly 

 shown that the much-disputed descent of Man from the Ape 

 is the necessary consequence of the Theory of Descent. If 

 the Theory of Descent is correct as a whole, it is impos- 

 sible not to regard the Apes most resembling Man as the 

 animals from which the human race has been immediately 

 evolved. 



Almost simultaneously Karl Yogt, a most acute zoologist, 

 published a larger work on the same subject, entitled 

 " Lectures on Man, his Place in Creation and in the History 

 of the Earth." This author has since partly retracted his 

 views, and has, indeed, quite recently adopted the strange 

 assumption that the descent of Man can only be traced 

 from the Apes, and not from the yet lower animals. This, 

 however, only shows that Vogt has not followed the recent 

 progress of Zoology, and that he has long ceased to sym- 

 pathize with the most important parts of the History of 

 Evolution. 



Gustav Jaeger ^ and Friedrich Rolle ^* must be men- 

 tioned among zoologists who, after the publication of 

 Darwin's work, took up the Theory of Descent, advanced 

 it, and drew the right logical conclusion, that Man is 

 descended from the lower animals. Friedrich Rolle, in 18G6 



