2QO EVOLUTION OF TO-DAY. 



evolutionary system. The argument is in brief as 

 follows : 



Evolution may apply to all other animals, because 

 all possess the same fundamental characteristics, the 

 difference being only in relation of parts. But man 

 is not only an animal ; he is more. He is an intel- 

 lectual and moral being, and these qualities are new 

 in kind. They are qualities which are not repre- 

 sented in animals, and could not, therefore, have 

 been derived from them. Just as there is a break 

 in continuity at the beginning of life, which has not 

 been bridged, so here, at the introduction of human 

 nature, there is another break. There is much dif- 

 ference of opinion as to whether this argument is a 

 legitimate one. Let us, then, notice the position 

 held both by those who accept and those who deny 

 the cogency of the argument. 



Mans Physical Nature. 



It may be well at the outset to acknowledge that, 

 so far as man's body is concerned, there is no valid 

 reason for exempting him from an origin such as 

 has been ascribed to the rest of the organic world. 

 Man is just as truly a member of the vertebrate sub- 

 kingdom, and of the order of primates, as is the 

 monkey. Bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve 

 for nerve, can his body be compared with that of 

 other vertebrates. From this side of his nature it 

 appears, according to the best authority, that not 

 only does man not have a sub-kingdom to himself, 

 but he does not belong to a distinct order or even 

 family. He forms simply a genus of primates 



