xx Analytical Outline of Contents. * 



Professor Haeckel's 



" Rogues in buckram." 



Destitute of any single living representative. 



Destitute of fossil evidence of their former existence. 

 The Chordonia 



"Developed THEMSELVES" 1 

 The admissions of its advocates, are 



Fatal to The Theory. 



CHAPTER XII. 



MEN. 



Prof. Huxley's dicta on 



" The question of questions for mankind." 

 Contrast between Men and Apes : 



As to cerebral structure. 



As to cerebral weight. 



As to " the great gulf in intellectual power 



between lowest man and highest ape." 



As to "the structural differences 



which separate Man from the Gorilla." 

 No intermediate Link 



bridges over the gap between Homo and Troglo- 

 dytes." 

 Paradoxes : 



" Qui-qua-versal propositions." 

 "The UNMEASURABLE and practically infinite divergence 



Of the Human from the Simian Stirps." 



Its ' ' Primary Cause." 

 Psychical Distinctions. 

 Structural Distinctions. 

 Mr. Darwin's Testimony to 



" The great break in the organic chain 



Between man and his nearest allies, which 



Cannot be bridged over 



By any extinct or living species." 

 Prof. Mivart's Refutation of this theory. 



Man, the apes, and the half-apes 



Cannot be arranged in a single ascending series. 



