CHAPTER VIII. 



THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. 



THE question of man's relation to the rest of the 

 organic world has been reserved for a special con- 

 sideration, since in many respects it stands by itself. 

 The subject is involved in preconceived notions and 

 sentiments, and is so plainly related to theological 

 ideas, over which discussion has always been quite 

 fierce, that the debates upon the question are some- 

 what bitter. Although in Darwin's first book noth- 

 ing was said as to man's origin, the tendency of his 

 theory was immediately perceived. If it had not 

 been recognized that the first acceptance of evolu- 

 tion would include the evolution of man from the 

 lower animals, doubtless the theory would not have 

 been so severely disputed. But this was recognized, 

 and it was soon definitely stated that man was in- 

 cluded in the scheme. Darwin claimed that man, 

 with all his faculties, intellectual and moral, had 

 been derived by slow growth from the lower animals. 

 Against this conclusion many thinkers have de- 

 murred. The objections have been due partly to a 

 dislike in accepting the belief. It has been thought 

 to be contrary to the teachings of revelation, to be 

 at enmity with a belief in man's immortality, etc. 

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