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peculiarities, it is true, but the differentiating 

 qualities are in language, thought and con- 

 duct, and in the finer brain associated with 

 these. 



The " Descent of Man " is the expansion 

 of a chapter in the " Origin of Species." In 

 other words, the evidences of man's origin 

 from an ancestral type common to him and 

 to the higher apes, are the same as those used 

 to substantiate the general doctrine of descent. 

 As Owen allowed long ago, there is an " all- 

 pervading similitude of structure " between 

 man and the anthropoid apes; the bodily life 

 is closely similar; the human body is a rich 

 collection of vestigial structures; some of the 

 fossil remains are nearer the anthropoid type; 

 man's individual development is in some ways 

 like a recapitulation of his presumed ancestral 

 history. 



There is a fine ring in the closing words of 

 " The Descent of Man " : 



'* We must, however, acknowledge, as it 

 seems to me, that man, with all his noble 

 qualities, with sympathy which feels for the 

 most debased, with benevolence which extends 

 not only to other men, but to the humblest 

 living creature, with his God-like intellect 

 which has penetrated into the movements 

 and constitution of the solar system with all 



