230 Zoology as Related to Evolution. 



ucts of invention come to take their places and perform their functions. 

 As we have already learned in another connection,* as soon as the 

 rational faculty in man reached such a stage as to enable him to in- 

 vent and use implements and tools, he began to become independent 

 of his own muscular development, which practically ceased at that 

 point and permitted a new state of things to grow out of the new co- 

 ordinations developed thereby. Animals have furnished man with a 

 part of his muscular outfit in the earlier stages of his evolution, but it 

 would seem that the copartnership of man with animals must dimin- 

 ish more and more, in its relative co-ordinations at least, as man de- 

 velops and makes use of the new co-ordinations. 



Has not the animal, then, done a large part of his work, and is he 

 not in great part and except in the lower forms to go out, leaving the 

 future largely to man and to vegetal life ? 



While, then, zoology as a science may continue to make progress 

 for a season, are not animals as such largely destined to extinction, 

 having had their day and done their work, if the human race is to 

 continue on its evolutionary march, and is not zoology therefore to be- 

 come more and more palasontological a science of fossil and extinct 

 forms of life f 



DR. RICHARD B. WESTBROOK : 



I have the honor to bs an officer of the Wagner School of Science in 

 Philadelphia, and with much pleasure attended a course of lectures 

 in that institution on the development of man and the relations be- 

 tween the lower animals and human beings. I think the ancients ex- 

 ceeded us in their love for the brute creation, and even the pagans of 

 to-day are in that respect in advance of our boasted Christian civiliza- 

 tion. The Buddhists build hospitals for their domestic animals, and 

 the Hindoos so reverence the life of brute creation that they will not 

 permit them to be killed for food. The ancient Egyptians embalmed 

 some of their domestic animals and revered them as symbols of the 

 Divine power. I am glad to have had an opportunity of attending a 

 meeting of this association, of the work of which I have known some- 

 thing through its publications, and have listened with great pleasure 

 to the lecture of the evening ; and though I came to listen, with no 

 expectation of being called upon to speak, I am glad to say a word in 

 favor of the higher development of our American people in that de- 

 partment of ethics which treats of the love and care due to the brute 

 creation. 



* See essay on Mechanic Arts, Sociology, pp. 196, 197. 



