CHAPTER X 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN 



Monkeys have always had a strange fascination for 

 men. More than one tribe that Hved among them 

 has puzzled over that queer suggestion of humanity 

 which they seem to have, and declared that they 

 must be human beings who had fallen from grace. 

 By the end of the eighteenth century it was openly 

 suggested in England that man had "descended" 

 from an animal of the kind. There were jeers and 

 jibes and hov^rls of laughter everywhere. Learned 

 men and unlearned scoffed. Now there is not a man 

 of science in the world who does not admit man's 

 descent from an ape-like form; and I do not think 

 that there is now a bishop in the world who would 

 oppose them. So let us not laugh too loudly at new 



ideas. 



It is usual to explain very carefully that man has 

 not been evolved from a monkey or an ape . Certainly 

 no existing monkeys or apes are in the line of man's 

 ancestry. There are in each case certain structural 

 differences which forbid us to suppose it. The Dutch 

 are not descended from either us or the Germans. 

 They are related to us and the Germans through a 



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