Impartial View of Man 159 



Huxley then proceeds to discuss the development of 

 man. 



"Is he something apart? Does he originate in a totally 

 different way from dog, bird, frog, and fish, thus justifying 

 those who assert him to have no place in nature, and no real 

 affinity with the lower world of animal life ? Or does he originate 

 in a similar germ, pass through the same slow and gradually 

 progressive modifications, depend on the same contrivances 

 for protection and nutrition, and finally enter the world by the 

 help of the same mechanism ? The reply is not doubtful for a 

 moment, and has not been doubtful any time these thirty 

 years. Without question, the mode of origin, and the early 

 stages of the development of man are identical with those of 

 animals immediately below him in the scale ; without doubt, 

 in these respects, he is far nearer the apes than the apes are to 

 the dog." 



Then, on lines with which, by continuous repetition and 

 expansion by authors subsequent to him, we have now 

 become familiar, Htixley compared, stage bj' stage, the 

 development of man with that of other animals, and 

 shewed, first, its essential similarity, and then that in 

 every case where it departed from the development of 

 the dog it resembled more closely the development of 

 the ape. He went on to review the anatomy of man : 



"Thus, identical in the physical processes by which he 

 originates, — identical, in the early stages of his formation — 

 identical in the mode of his nutrition before and after birth, 

 with the animals which lie immediately below him in the scale, 

 — Man, if his adult and perfect structure be compared with 

 theirs exhibits, as might be expected, a marvellous likeness of 

 organisation. He resembles them as they resemble one 

 another — he differs from them as they differ from one another. 

 And, though these differences cannot be weighed and meas- 

 ured, their value may be readily estimated ; the scale or 

 standard of judgment, touching that value, being afforded and 



