IV 



THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE 

 EVOLUTION OF MAN 1 



THE remarks which my friend Mr. Clark has 

 made with reference to the reconciling of science and 

 religion seem to carry me back to the days when I 

 first became acquainted with the fact that there 

 were such things afloat in the world as speculations 

 about the origin of man from lower forms of life ; 

 and I can recall step by step various stages in 

 which that old question has come to have a differ- 

 ent look from what it had thirty years ago. One 

 of the commonest objections we used to hear, from 

 the mouths of persons who could not very well give 

 voice to any other objection, was that anybody, 

 whether he knows much or little about evolution, 

 must have the feeling that there is something de- 

 grading about being allied with lower forms of life. 

 That was, I suppose, owing to the survival of the 



1 Short-hand report of my speech at a dinner given for me by 

 Mr. John Spencer Clark, at the Aldine Club, New York, May 13, 

 1895. 



