X. 



Improvableness of Man. 

 OR the creation of Man was by no 

 means the creation of a perfect be- 

 ing. The most essential feature of 

 Man is his improvableness, and since his 

 first appearance on the earth the changes 

 that have gone on in him have been enor- 

 mous, though they have continued to run 

 along in the lines of development that 

 were then marked out. The changes have 

 been so great that in many respects the 

 interval between the highest and the low- 

 est men far surpasses quantitatively the 

 interval between the lowest men and 

 the highest apes. If we take into ac- 

 count the creasing of the cerebral surface, 

 the difference between the brain of a 

 Shakespeare and that of an Australian 

 savage would doubtless be fifty times 



