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out its passing througli the phase of development 

 from an individual ia whom the entire change was 

 first produced."* But even allowing for these facts 

 — and they are aU of high biological significance — ^it 

 were unwise in science not to admit the difficulties 

 that beset the problem, and rash to insist on more 

 than the general inference that, as man belongs to, 

 and is inseparably associated with, the great scheme 

 of life, so he must have been subject, and continue to 

 be subject, to any law of development that may he 

 found afiectiag the other members. Where the ad- 

 vocates of development, in the present incompleted 

 state of their argument, assume a position much 

 more definite, they only prejudice their cause ; and 

 where their opponents refuse to concede this much, 

 it were simply waste of time to attempt to convince 

 them. 



k « Admitting, however, that the higher animals pass 

 through fewer stages of development ; admitting that 

 large areas of Africa and Asia, where the intermediate 

 forms are most likely to occur, are yet geologically un- 

 explored ; and even admitting man's structural modi- 

 fication from the species that stand next beneath him, 

 there still remains the fact that something new has 

 been superadded — the organisation fitted for higher 

 functional performance, the intellect capable of im- 

 * OeographicallHstnlmtion of Mammals. By Andrew Murray : 1866. 



