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Hottentots. ) — Fleec)'-liaire(i (Caifres, Negroes). — Straight-haired 

 Men, or Lissotrichi. — Stiif-haired (Australians, Malays, Mongols, 

 Arctic, and American Tribes). — Curly-haired (Dravidas, Nubians, 

 Midlanders). — Number of Population. — Primaeval Home of Man 

 (South Asia, or Lemuria). — Nature of Primaeval Men. — Number of 

 Primseval Languages (Monoglottists and Polyglottists). — Divergence 

 and Migration of the Human Eace. — Geographical Distribution of 

 the Human Species ... ... ... ... 296 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



OBJECTIONS AGAINST, AND PEOOFS OF THE TRUTH OF, 

 THE THEOEY OF DESCENT. 



Objections to the Doctrine of Filiation. — Objections of Faith and 

 Eeason. — Immeasurable Length of the Geological Periods. — Transi- 

 ion Forms between Kindred Species. — Dependence of Stability of 

 Form on Inheritance, and of the Variability of Form on Adaptation. — 

 Origin of very Complicated Arrangement of Organisation. — Gradual 

 Development of Instincts and Mental Activities. — Origin of a priori 

 Knowledge from Knowledge a posteriori. — The Knowledge requisite 

 for the Correct Understanding of the Doctrine of Filiation. — Neces- 

 sary Interaction between Empiricism and Philosophy. — Proofs of the 

 Theory of Descent. — Inner Causal-Connection between all the Bio- 

 logical Series of Phenomena. — The Direct Proof of the Theory of 

 Selection. — Eelation of the Theory of Descent to Anthropology. — 

 Proofs of the Animal Origin of Man. — The Pithecoid Theory as an 

 Inseparable Part of the Theory of Descent. — Induction and Deduc- 

 tion. — Gradual Development of the Human Mind. — Body and Mind. 

 — Human Soul and Animal Soul. — A Glance at the Future ... 334 



List OF Works KEPEBKED TO ra THE Text ... ... -37I 



Appendix (Explanation of the Plates) 379 



Index 4no 





