WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT. 67 
be the same under changing times and conditions. With 
the larger knowledge of to-morrow there will be large 
modifications in the accepted philosophy of evolution. 
Each succeeding generation will give to the applications 
of the laws of organic life a different philosophical ex- 
pression. 
In these four senses the word evolution is used with 
some degree of accuracy; but in the current literature 
of the day the word has many other 
meanings, some of them very far from 
any just basis. Some things which evo- 
lution is not we may here notice briefly. 
Evolution is not a theory that “man is a developed 
monkey.” The question of the immediate origin of man 
is not the central or overshadowing 
What evolution 
is not, 
Man not a question of evolution. This question 
developed ff ial difficulti in th 
cree offers no special difficulties in theory, 
although the materials for exact knowl- 
edge are in many directions incomplete. Homologies 
more perfect than those connecting man with the great 
group of monkeys could not exist. These imply the 
blood relationship of the human race with the great 
host of apes and monkeys. As to this there can be no 
shadow of a doubt, and, as similar homologies connect 
man with all members of the group of mammals, similar 
blood relationship must exist; and homologies less close 
but equally unmistakable connect all backboned ani- 
mals one with another, and the lowest backboned types 
are closely joined to wormlike forms not-usually classed 
as vertebrates. 
It is perfectly true that in the higher or anthro- 
poid apes the relations with man are extremely. inti- 
mate; but man is not simply “a developed ape.” Apes 
and men have diverged from the same primitive stock— 
apelike, manlike, but not exactly the one nor the other. 
