COT^TENTS 



Introduction, Page 1 



PAET I. 



THE DESCENT OB ORIGIN OF MAN. 

 CHAPTER I, 



THE EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWEE FORM. 



Nature of the Evidence bearing o\i the Origin of Man.— Homologous struct- 

 ures in Man and the Lower Animals. — Miscellaneous Points of Corre- 

 spondence. — Development. — Eudimentary Structures, Muscle.'*, Sense- 

 organs, Hair, Bones, Reproductive Organs, etc.— The Bearing of these 

 three great Classes of Facts on the Origin of Man, . . . p. 9 



CHAPTER II. 



COMPAKISON OF THE MENTAL POWERS OF MA^ AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. 



The Difference in Mental Power between the Highest Ape and the Lowest 

 Savage, immense. — Certain Instincts in common. — The Emotions. — 

 Curiosity. — Imitation. — Attention. — Memory. — Imagination. — Reason. 

 — ^Progressive Improvement.— Tools and Weapons used by Animals. 

 — ^Language. — Self-Consciousness. — Sense of Beauty.— Belief in God, 

 Spiritual Agencies, Superstitions, p. 33 



CHAPTER III. 



COMPARISON OF THE MENTAL POWERS OF MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS — 



continued. 



The Moral Sense.— Fundamental Proposition.— The Qualities of Social 

 Animals.- Origin of Sociability.— Struggle between Opposed In- 

 stincts. — Man a Social Animal.— The more enduring Social Instincts 

 conquer other less Persistent Instincts.— The Social Virtues alone re- 



