LECTURE III. 

 WHAT EVOLUTION Is NOT. 



I. Not that "man is a developed monkey." No 

 monkeys or apes now existing could have been ances- 

 tors of primitive man. As man changes and diver- 

 ges so do they. None of them conceivably ancestors 

 of future races of man. Evolution is essentially 

 movement toward better adaptation to conditions of 

 life. Movement of monkeys toward simianity, not 

 humanity. But all evidence points toward descent of 

 all mammals, of all vertebrates, from a common stock. 

 The simian races nearest man, and their divergence 

 from a common stock comparatively recent. 



II. Not that all living forms are tending toward hu- 

 manity. Not that " every favorable variety of the 

 turnip is tending to become man."- - Wilberforce. Not 

 " the growth of the highest alga into a zoophyte, a 

 phenomenon for which sharp eyes have sought and 

 which is not only natural, but inevitable on the Dar- 

 winian hypothesis, and whose discovery would make 

 the fame of any observer." Seelye. Humanity not 

 the goal of Evolution. Humanity the goal of human 

 Evolution, perhaps. Goal of Evolution adaptation, 

 mostly by slow divergence. 



III. Not series of sudden and radical changes. Not 

 that a flying fish in the air would see his " scales dis- 

 parting into feathers." Not that a horse should give 



