GOD IN NATURE. 147 
walks erect ;—this erect attitude and upward gaze, recog- 
nised by the ancient Greeks as the distinguishing mark of 
man.* One would like also to have some light thrown on the 
process by which the brain in man became so enormously 
enlarged, that the proportions are as 48 or 49 ounces in man 
to 20 ounces in the gorilla; although the animal remained in 
a savage state, requiring no greater mentai effort than that 
necessary for the supply of his physical wants and defence 
against enemies. We might inquire, also, why did the hair 
fall off his body ere he had commenced to cover himself with 
clothing in a region which, if Wallace’s suggestion regarding 
the birthplace vf man be correct, must have been liable to 
great alternations of cold and heat ?¢ It is remarkable that the 
intermediate forms between man and the ape have not been 
discovered, though much weight need not be attached to 
this negative evidence. But whether we admit or deny the 
physical continuity of man and the fossil ape, we are justified 
in holding that on either hypothesis the outcome cannot be 
accounted for solely on natural causes. Natural selection 
there may have been, but supernatural selection there must 
have been also. 
If I were permitted to illustrate my meaning by a case 
taken from Bible bistory, I would take that of the call of 
Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees. Here God selected, ont 
of the whole human race, one man and his family to found a 
nation In a new country, through whom all the families of 
the earth should be blessed, and whose descendants are 
amongst us at the present day. Some family, or tribe of 
apes, may have thus been specially selected as the progeni- 
tors of man, endowed with special powers of development 
denied to the other primates, and to some extent independent 
of changes in external conditions. He who considers such an 
origin for man to be a degradation of the race, let him ask 
himself whether man does not, by his own act and will, even 
now degrade himself below the brute creation? The brute 
in human form who, in the West of Ireland, maims dumb 
animals in order to injure their owners; or who, in the East 
of London, mutilates helpless women; or who, in Central 
Africa, shoots down half a village of unarmed and unsuspect- 
ing Savages, and carries the remainder into slavery, or con- 
* ”AvOporros. 
t+ Haeckel with more probability places the birthplace in the submerged 
continent of Lemuria, at the head of the Indian Ocean. 
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