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professor, the celebrated MAX MULLER, 

 somewhat sarcastically observes on the 

 same subject " Lord Monboddo had just 

 finished his great work in which he derives 

 all mankind from a couple of asses, and the 

 dialects of the world from a language 

 originally framed by some Egyptian 

 gods." * 



Shortly after Lord Monboddo had 

 propounded his theory of man's descent 

 from a monkey, the philosophic LAMARCK 

 endeavoured to put the whole subject 

 of Development or Evolution into scientific 

 ship-shape by reasoning thus "You see 

 in Nature," he said, "a gradation of 

 organized beings, therefore we must admit 

 a series of successive changes by which 

 animals of one class can raise themselves 

 to another. For example, a bird compelled 

 by necessity to seek for water, either swims 

 or passes through places of little depth, 

 and its descendants do the same. During 

 the course of many generations, the efforts 

 which it made to extend its claws, would 



* See Appendix B. 



