CHAPTER XXVI. 



RESULTS OF ANTHROPOGENY. 



Review of the Germ-history as given. Its Explanation by the Fundamental 

 Law of Biogeny. Its Causal Eelation to the History of the Tribe. 

 Rudimentary Organs of Man. Dysteleology, or the Doctrine of Pur- 

 poselessness. Inheritances from Apes. Man's Place in the Natural 

 System of the Animal Kingdom. Man as a Vertebrate and a Mammal. 

 Special Tribal Relation of Men and Apes. Evidences regarding the 

 Ape Question. The Catarhina and the Platyrhina. The Divine Origin 

 of Man. Adam and Eve. History of the Evolution of the Mind. 

 Important Mental Differences within a Single Class of Animals. The 

 Mammalian Mind and the Insect Mind. Mind in the Ant and in the 

 Scale-louse (Coccus). Mind in Man and in Ape. The Organ of Mental 

 Activity : the Central Nervous System. The Ontogeny and Phy- 

 logeny of the Mind. The Monistic and Dnalistic Theories of the 

 Mind. Heredity of the Mind. Bearing of the Fundamental Law of 

 Biogeny on Psychology. Influence of Anthropogeny on the Victory of 

 the Monistic Philosophy and the Defeat of the Dualistic. Nature and 

 Spirit. Natural Science and Spiritual Science. Conception of the 

 World reformed by Anthropogeny. 



" The Theory of Descent is a general inductive law which results with 

 absolute necessity from the comparative synthesis of all the phenomena of 

 organic nature, and especially from tha threefold parallel of phylogenetic, 

 ontogenetic, and systematic evolution. The doctrine that man has de- 

 veloped from lower Vertebrates, and immediately from genuine Apes, is 

 a special deductive conclusion, which results with absolute necessity from 

 the general inductive law of the Theory of Descent. This view of 'mau's 



