LUBBOCK'S PROGENITOR OF MAN. .6^ 



is not the direction In which the bHnd forces 

 of Natural Selection could ever work. The 

 creature " not worthy to be called a man," to 

 whom Sir J. Lubbock has referred as the pro- 

 genitor of Man, was, ex hypothesis deficient in 

 those mental capacities which now distinguish 

 the lowest of the human race. To exist at 

 all, this creature must have been more animal 

 in its structure; it must have had bodily 

 powers and organs more like those of the 

 beasts. The continual improvement and per- 

 fection of these would be the direction of 

 variation most favourable to the continuance 

 of the species. These could not be modified 

 in the direction of greater weakness without 

 inevitable destruction, until first by the gift 

 of reason and of mental capacities of con- 

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