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Lord C. Will Mr. Darwin now inform us what further 

 evidence he has to offer in support of his hypothesis ? 



Darwin. Your Lordship has already heard the whole of 

 the evidence I have to adduoe in support of the views 

 which I maintain regarding the origin of man. That 

 evidence is exhausted in the first two-and-twenty pages 

 of my book ! The first chapter is entitled, " The evidence 

 of the descent of man from some lower Jorm" In the second 

 and third chapters I compare the mental powers of man and 

 the lower animals. The fourth chapter is On the manner of 

 development of man from some lower form. The fifh 

 chapter, On the, development of the intellectual and moral 

 families, during primeval and civilized times. The sixth, 

 On the affinities and genealogy of man. Chapter seventh is 

 On the races of man. I then proceed, in the second part 

 of my work, to the subject of Sexual Selection; which 

 occupies the remainder of the first volume and nearly the 

 whole of the second. In this part I speak mostly of 

 changes which I suppose sexual preference to have intro- 

 duced into the animal kingdom. 



Lord C. It will not be necessary for us to hear you on 

 that portion of your work, inasmuch as we have to do only 

 with your assertions as to man's descent from some lower 

 form. 



Homo. May I, however,* call your Lordship's attention 

 to the fact that, while Mr. Darwin tries to account for the 



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