84 THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES 



III. 



There has been much speculation, and no less 

 controversy, during recent years, concerning the 

 birthplace and origin of man, and I don't know 

 that we are any nearer the solution of these 

 questions than we were immediately after the 

 publication of Mr. Darwin's " Origin of Species," 

 nearly thirty years ago. That man is a 

 descendant of some two-legged and two-armed 

 creature much like himself, although less homi- 

 nine both in the development of his intellectual 

 faculties and the structure of his bodily frame, 

 there is little reason to doubt, but science has 



