WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT. 6/ 



be the same under changing times and conditions. With 

 the larger knowledge of to-morrow there will be large 

 modifications in the accepted philosophy of evolution. 

 Each succeeding generation will give to the applications 

 of the laws of organic life a different philosophical ex- 

 pression. 



In these four senses the word evolution is used with 



some degree of accuracy ; but in the current literature 



of the day the word has many other 



What evolution ^^^^- ^^^^ of them very far from 



is not. .. r. ,-,-i 



any just basis. Some thmgs which evo- 

 lution is not we may here notice briefly. 



Evolution is not a theory that " man is a developed 



monkey." The question of the immediate origin of man 



is not the central or overshadowing 



Man not a question of evolution. This question 



, offers no special difficulties in theory, 



monkey. ^ ■' ' 



although the materials for exact knowl- 

 edge are in many directions incomplete. Homologies 

 more perfect than those connecting man with the great 

 group of monkeys could not exist. These imply the 

 blood relationship of the human race with the great 

 host of apes and monkeys. As to this there can be no 

 shadow of a doubt, and, as similar homologies connect 

 man with all members of the group of mammals, similar 

 blood relationship must exist; and homologies less close 

 but equally unmistakable connect all backboned ani- 

 mals one with another, and the lowest backboned types 

 are closely joined to wormlike forms not usually classed 

 as vertebrates. 



It is perfectly true that in the higher or anthro- 

 poid apes the relations with man are extremely inti- 

 mate ; but man is not simply " a developed ape." Apes 

 and men have diverged from the same primitive stock — 

 apelike, manlike, but not exactly the one nor the other. 



