PART II. 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN. 



'T^^HE Human Race has no more know- 

 ledge or recollection of its own origin 

 than a child has of its own birth. But a 

 child drinks in with its mother's milk some 

 knowledge of the relation in which it stands 

 to its own parents, and as it grows up it 

 knows of other children being born around it. 

 It sees one generation going and another 

 generation coming, so that long before the 

 years of childhood close the ideas of birth 



