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bryo of man does not pass through the 

 lower forms of animals." 



In the same spirit another high autho- 

 rity of the 19th century, Professor Max 

 Miiller, in his third Lecture on Darwinism 

 at the Royal Institution, when his special 

 subject was The Relation of Language and 

 Thought, forcibly observed that " as it 

 was impossible for him to say that man 

 has or may have been developed from 

 some lower animal, it seemed to him 

 to be the duty of every friend of truth to 

 resist with all his might the hasty conclusions 

 of the Darwinian school, and to remind its 

 triumphant disciples that nothing is so 

 dangerous to the quiet pursuit of truth 

 as popular applause. 'As far as we can 

 trace back the footsteps of man, even in 

 the lowest strata of history, we see that 

 the Divine gift of a sound and sober 

 intellect belonged to him from the very 

 first, and the idea of a humanity emerging 

 slowly from the depths of an animal 

 brutality can never be maintained again" 



To the above opinions, so subversive of 



