301 [Price, 
make their appearance in him, through’ reversion, and by the aid of the 
principles of morphology and embryology. The early progenitors of man 
were no doubt once covered with hair, both sexes having beards ; their ears 
were pointed and capable of movement, and their bodies were provided 
with a tail, having the proper muscles. Their limbs and bodies were 
also acted on by many muscles which now only occasionally re-appear, 
but are normally present in the quadrumana.”” * * ‘The foot, judg- 
ing from the condition of the great toe in the foetus, was then prehensile ; 
and our progenitors, no doubt, were Arboreal in their habits, frequenting 
some warm forest clad land. The males were provided with great canine 
teeth, which served them as formidable weapons.’ Ib, 198. “Inaseries of 
forms graduating insensibly from some ape-like creature to man as he 
now exists, it would be impossible to fix on any definite point when the 
term ‘man’ ought to be used.’? Ib. 226. That is, when he ceased to 
be monkey and became man, by physical transformation. Mr. Darwin 
has not attempted to show us in geology, in history or in life, aman at 
the point of transition, or to imagine or describe what he could be, or 
what the essentials to the change ; nor any creature yet in the process of 
trasformation. 
Thus, it is distinctly avowed that man was the result of this theory of 
evolution, and that his ancestor was an ape; whose ultimate progenitor 
was some trivial form of life in the bottom of the ocean. Thus by 
chance-begotten variations in the process of generation, all the million 
forms of life, in all their infinite distinctions, have been formed. 
Thus, through an instinct which no creature but man ever controls 
or disobeys, all living life has beensbuilt up; nay, all created crea- 
tures were. created, except some first simple form, which alone it has been 
necessary for this theory to invoke, that there might be an inceptive 
speck of life for the beginning of a process of variable generations. But 
who gave this power to the first life and all later life to propagate such 
variable generations? Who created the sexes and the organs of genera- 
tions? Who prepared the germs of life in one sex to be called into being 
by the other? Who gave the instinctive desire that starts gestation, and 
made the progeny to share the likeness and qualities of both parents ? 
Who gave the parental instinct of protection of offspring, and who the 
requisite intelligence for their nurture? It is left fairly to be inferred 
that a Creator could only make the first simple form, and not the later 
higher life ; or that life first came and worked on spontaneonsly. How 
could the creature of inferior instinct by generation create that which 
evinces the intelligence of the bee, the ant, the beaver and the elephant? 
The skill and polity of the bee, that made the ancients ascribe to her a 
spark of the Divine intelligence? Mere physical changes could not ac- 
count for all these, and yet less for the mind of man. The Intelligence 
of instinct, and of mind, are not conceivably the product of matter, spon- 
taneously or generatively, but we must ascribe such endowment to Him 
who could make the ant wiser than the human sluggard, who forfeits his 
manhood and dignity ; to a Being infinitely superior in intelligence than 
