384 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. 



killed " him. For the first edition Darwin received 

 over seven thousand dollars. It had an immense 

 circulation in England and America, and created a 

 furor in Germany. 



Darwin believed " that man is descended from a 

 hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed 

 ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhab- 

 itant of the Old World. This creature, if its whole 

 structure had been examined by a naturalist, would 

 have been classed among the quadrumana, as surely 

 as would the common and still more ancient pro- 

 genitor of the Old and New World monkeys. 



" The quadrumana and all the higher mammals 

 are probably derived from an ancient marsupial 

 animal, and this, through a long line of diversified 

 forms, either from some reptile-like or some am- 

 phibian-like creature, and this again from some 

 fishlike animal. In the dim obscurity of the past, 

 we can see that the early progenitor of all the 

 vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, pro- 

 vided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in 

 the same individual, and with the most important 

 organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) 

 imperfectly developed. This animal seems to have 

 been more like the larvae of our existing marine 

 Ascidians than any known form." 



Most naturalists believe, with Darwin, that man 

 has developed from some lower form, but many 

 urge that at some stage of development he received 

 the gift of speech, and mental and moral powers, 

 from an omnipotent Creator. 



