The Destiny of Man. 19 



we have been made acquainted there are 

 sundry well-marked changes going on. 

 Certain definite paths of development are 

 being pursued ; and around us on every 

 side we behold worlds, organisms, and 

 societies in divers stages of progress or 

 decline. Still .more, as we examine the 

 records of past life upon our globe, and 

 study the mutual relations of the liv- 

 ing things that still remain, it appears 

 that the higher forms of life including 

 Man himself are the modified descend- 

 ants of lower forms. Zoologically speak- 

 ing, Man can no longer be regarded as a 

 creature apart by himself. We cannot 

 erect an order on purpose to contain him, 

 as Cuvier tried to do ; we cannot even 

 make a separate family for him. Man is 

 not only a vertebrate, a mammal, and a 

 primate, but he belongs, as a genus, to the 

 catarrhine family of apes. And just as 

 lions, leopards, and lynxes different gen- 

 era of the cat-family are descended from 

 a common stock of carnivora, back to 



