HUMAN NATURE AND BRUTE NATURE. 85 



startling or even dangerous as they may seem to 

 some, give support to high principles of humanity, 

 and are in accordance with the course and progress 

 of God's revelation of Himself to mankind. 



It is well established that the human body in all its 

 parts corresponds to the structure of certain of the lower 

 animals. When first discovered this was extremely 

 shocking to the sentiments of mankind, shocking to 

 their pride, but shocking also to their religious senti- 

 ment, because they had been accustomed to speak of 

 the ' human form divine,' to represent the supreme God, 

 f Jehovah, Jove, or Lord,' as wearing the form and 

 acting with the members of a man, and because in the 

 writings sacred alike to the Jew and to the Christian, 

 they found it written that ' God created man in His 

 own image ; in the image of God created He him.' 

 They did not stop to enquire what sort of creation 

 was intended or what sort of likeness. They failed to 

 observe that the vague indefinite notion they entertained 

 of a bodily likeness was inconsistent with the Christian's 

 cardinal doctrine of the Incarnation, according to which 

 it is not man that wears the form of God, but God that 

 took upon him the form of man. 



It will now for a time perhaps seem equally shocking 

 that the mind of man, which alone is left him for the 

 divine resemblance, should notwithstanding have been 

 developed from the mind of a brute creature, or if not 

 developed, at any rate framed upon the same type and 

 pattern. 



A broad line has till lately been drawn between reason 



