102 EVOLUTION 



half erect, of using sticks and stones, of 

 building shelters, of living in families, of co- 

 operating in bands, and of talking a good deal. 

 The anthropoid apes are not social, but many 

 monkeys are, and there can be little doubt 

 that man was from the first distinctively 

 social. " Man did not make society; society 

 made man." 



The uncertainties as to man's pedigree 

 and antiquity are still great, and it is unde- 

 niably difficult to discover the factors in 

 his emergence and ascent. Therefore, while 

 holding firmly to the general conclusion to 

 which the facts all point, we do well to treat 

 the problem with all reverence, especially 

 when we reflect on the greatness of the result 

 of this last great step in organic evolution. 

 For " What a piece of work is a man ! How 

 noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty, in 

 form and moving how express and admirable I 

 in action how like an angel ! in apprehension 

 how like a god 1 " 



A chapter can merely hint at the great 

 steps in evolution, and we must leave the 

 reader to develop the subject. For this is 

 certain that we cannot appreciate the fact 

 of evolution, or form a sound judgment in 

 regard to its factors, unless we think of the 

 age-long process in some detail and recognize 



