434 KOSS — ON EVOLUTION. 



the different kinds of monkeys. And it was for that reason that 

 early I maintained that the different races of men must have had an 

 independent origin, because I saw the time coming when the 

 question of the origin of man would be mixed up with the question 

 of the origin of animals, and a community of origin might be 

 affirmed for all. Now, I hold that the idea of the community of 

 origin of man and monkeys and the other quadrupeds is a fallacy, 

 the foundation of which I shall try to explain presently. But if it 

 is error to consider man as derived from monkeys, we must admit 

 that men are not derived from a common stock, because the differ- 

 ences which exist among men are of the same kind and quite as 

 striking as the differences which exist between monkeys, and 

 between the lower animals." 



Now, I need not say that a disbelief of the original unity 

 of Man is irreconcileable with Christianity, so that if as Agassiz 

 affirms, a common origin for the Races of Mankind necessarily, 

 implies a common origin for the various Species of each Genera of 

 Monkeys, and for each of these Genera and Man, then, from a 

 theological point of view, we would be driven to accept the view 

 which assigns a common origin to Man and the Monkeys, and if 

 to these then to all the Vertebrates, and ultimately to all organic 

 Types. 



I have thus endeavored, in intervals snatched from professional 

 study and daily avocations, to sketch in outline this great subject, 

 in undoubting faith that fidelity to truth is the only true fidelity to 

 lleligion and to God. 



When Man began to arm himself with weapons against the 

 greater Animals within his reach, these had reached their maximum, 

 and began to be speedily exterminated before his attacks, for while 

 in the earlier Post Tertiary the greater Continent and North 

 America were the homes of the greatest Megasthenes (or higher 

 Vertebrates) that ever lived, almost equally great Edentates flour- 

 ished in South America, and similarly vast Marsupials in Australia, 

 while Cetacea|ns probably the largest, without exception, of animals 

 that ever lived, flourished in the Polar Seas. Of all these most of 

 the largest have perished already, wliile as Man improves his arms 



