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CHAPTER XXII. 

 ORIGIN AND PEDIGREE OF MAN. 



The Application, of the Theory of Descent to Man. — Its Immense Importance 

 and Logical Necessity. — Man's Position in the Natural System of 

 Animals, among Disco-placental Animals.— Incorrect Separation of 

 the Bimana and Quadrumana. — Correct Separation of Semi-apes 

 from Apes. — Man's Position in the Order of Apes. — Narrow-nosed Apes 

 (of the Old World) and Flat-nosed Apes (of America). — Difference of 

 the two Groups. — Origin of Man from Narrow-nosed Apes. — Human 

 Apes, or Anthropoides. — African Human Apes (Gorilla a'nd Chimpanzee). 

 — Asiatic Human Apes (Orang and Gibbon). — Comparison between the 

 different Human Apes and the different Races of Men. - Survey of the 

 Series of the Progenitors of Man. — -Invertebrate Progenitors (Prochor- 

 data) and Vertebrate Progenitors. 



Of all the individual questions answered by the Theory of 

 Descent, of aU the special inferences drawn from it, there is 

 none of such importance as the application of this doctrine 

 to Man himself As I remarked at the beginning of this 

 treatise, the inexorable necessity of the strictest logic forces 

 us to draw the special deductive conclusion from the general 

 inductive law of the theory, that Man has developed 

 gradually, and step by step, out of the lower Vertebrata, 

 and more immediately out of Ape-like Mammals. That 

 this doctrine is an inseparable part of the Theory of 

 Descent, and hence also of the universal Theory of Develop- 

 ment in general, is recognized by all thoughtful adherents 



