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animal remains of thousands and thousands of years back, they were 

 wanting something it would be difficult to get, for they had perished- 

 ages and ages ago. There had always been going on an immense 

 struggle for existence, and the result of these struggles had been 

 called the survival of the fittest. In this struggle the dominant 

 race entirely exterminated the inferior race. He pointed out how 

 the aborigines in Australia and America were being exterminated. 

 In conclusion, the speaker said, for his part, he would rather be 

 descended from an animal of the noble baboon-like character 

 described by Darwin, than he would from some of the savages he 

 (Dr. Fitzgerald) had mentioned that eveniug. (Laughter), 



Mr. Walton said he would first of all like ask Mr. Ullyett how far 

 he was prepared to go with the theory of development. He was 

 aware that Darwin, in the closing passage of the '• Origin of Species," 

 told them that his theory would give grandeur to life, but on turning 

 to later authorities, he found that they believed Darwin was then 

 in error. The more recent teacliers certainly did out-Darwin 

 Darwin. They must remember that although Darwin did not touch 

 on the origin of man in the Origin of Species, in a later publication 

 he did. If they carried this theory to its legitimate conclusions, 

 they could not exclude man from the argument. Then again, the 

 very important point of the origin of life was bound up in the 

 theory. How, it was, asked, did life come into existence ? The 

 speakers for Darwin answered, " By spontaneous generation." 

 He wished to raise these points because they seemed to spring out 

 of the theory as explained by Mr. Ullyett. It was perfectly true 

 that Darwin did not claim that that they were directly descended 

 from the apes. There were two branches from the Lemur — one 

 going off to the right and terminating in man, and the other going 

 off to the left and terminating in the ape. The speaker, in the 

 course of furtlier remarks, dwelt upon the fact that such an 

 enormous length of time was required for the workinj.^ out of this 

 grand scheme. Writers upon it spoke of millions and millions of 

 years, and certainly they could form no adequate idea of what 

 might or might not take place in tlie course of such a length of 

 time. It was certain that there were races which had a hairy 

 covering to the body, and he was well aware of the fact that the 

 examination of the brain of an ape side by side with that of a man 

 would disclose extremely few differences in form. But there still 

 seemed to be a wide gap between man and the ape. Man was possessed 

 of the power of speech. When he consulted the Darwin authorities 

 on this point he found that they asserted that languiige gave bu-th 

 to reason. There was then a time when their ancestors had no 

 reason because they had no language. Language in its origin was 

 a mere meaningless articulation, but as their ancestors became 



