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that is, having the general structure of men; but yet being 
destitute of one of the most important qualities of man, namely, 
articulate speech, as well as of the higher mental develop- 
ment connected with speech. ‘The higher differentiation of 
the larynx and of the brain, occasioned by the latter, first 
gave rise to the true man.” * 
Passing from Germany, let us listen to the answer to the 
question as given by some of the leaders of scientific thought 
in England. What say the disciples of the late Charles 
Darwin? You ask us, say they, was primeval man a savage ? 
We answer, of course he was; for ‘man is descended from 
a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, 
probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old 
world. This creature, if its whole structure had been 
examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst 
the quadrumana, as surely as would the common, and still 
more ancient, progenitor of the old and new-world monkeys.” + 
Now, if what these men say be the truth, it is clear that, 
unless the particular family of the apes from which man 
descended had made some advance towards civilisation, 
while still in their apish condition, then man, as the direct 
descendant of the ape, must have commenced his career as an 
untutored savage, the son of a brute beast. But let us pass 
from German professors and English savants, and interrogate 
the inspired writer of the book of Genesis. What say you, 
Moses? Does man owe his origin as a man to the struggles 
of some ape-like creature to improve its condition? Did he 
commence his career as an untutored savage? Mark the 
answer which is given. ‘‘No!” an emphatic “No!” “For 
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” 
“ And God created man in His image, in the image of God 
created He him, male and female created He them.”’ 
Let us now put the question to one of the heathen poets, 
Ovid. What say you, ancient sage? Was primeval man a 
savage? Here is his answer :— 
“A creature of a more exalted kind 
Was wanting yet, and then was man design’d: 
Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast ; 
For empire form’d, and fit to rule the rest. 
Thus, while the whole creatures downward bend, 
Their sight to their earthly mother tend, 
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes 
Beholds his own hereditary skies.” 
* The Evolution of Man, 1879, vol. ii. pp. 180-2. 
+ Descent of Man, Part II. ch, xxi, 
