242 Men. 



of their environment. These capacities have 

 respect to future possibilities of culture. But 

 prolepsis, anticipation, involves intention and 

 a will. 



He contends further, 1 that even as to his 

 body, Man is a clear and palpable and positive 

 exception to the theory of Evolution. To 

 produce the human frame required, he says, 

 the intervention of some special agency. He 

 adverts to the peculiar disposition of the hair 

 on man, especially that nakedness of the back 

 which is common to all races of men, and to 

 the peculiar construction of the hand and foot. 

 " The. hand of man," he tells us, " contains latent 

 capacities and powers which are unused by 

 savages, and must have been even less used by 

 palaeolithic man and his still ruder predecessors. 

 It has all the appearance of an organ prepared 

 for the use of civilized man, and one which 

 was required to render civilization possible." 



Again : speaking of the " wonderful power, 

 range, flexibility, and sweetness of the musical 

 sounds producible by the human larynx," he 

 adds, " the habits of savages give no indication 

 of how this faculty could have been developed." 

 ..." The singing of savages is a more 

 or less monotonous howling, and the females 

 1 u Natural Selection," pp. 332-360. 



