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in this an animal, and closely related to other 

 animals. To have claimed for him a distinct 

 origin would have altogether discredited the 

 theory, though it might be admitted that, man 

 having appeared, his free volition and his moral 

 and social instincts would at once profoundly 

 modify the course of the evolution. On the 

 other hand, the gulf which separates the reason 

 and the conscience of man from instinct and 

 the animal intelligence of lower creatures op- 

 posed an almost impassable barrier to the union 

 of man with lower animals ; and the attempt to 

 bridge this gulf threatened to bring the theory 

 into a deadly struggle with the moral, social, 

 and religious instincts of mankind. In face of 

 this difficulty, Darwin and most of his followers 

 adopted the more daring course of maintaining 

 the evolution of the whole man from lower 

 forms, and thereby entered into a warfare, 

 which still rages, with psychology, ethics, phi- 

 lology, and theology. 



It is easy for shallow evolutionists unaware 

 of the tendencies of their doctrine, or for lat- 

 itudinarian churchmen careless as to the main- 

 tenance of truth if only outward forms are pre- 

 served and comprehension secured, to overlook 

 or make light of these antagonisms, but science 



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