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plained by Natural Selection—Adaptation brought about by General 
Laws—Beauty in Nature—How New Forms are produced by Varia- 
tion and Selection—The Objection that there are Limits to Variation 
—Objection to the Argument from Classification—The Times on 
Natural Selection—Intermediate or generalised Forms of Extinct 
Animals an indication of Transmutation or Development—Conclu- 
sion—A Demonstration of the Origin of Species by Natural Selection 
Pages 141-166 
VIII. THe DeveL.opMent oF Human Racks UNDER THE Law 
or NatuRAL SELECTION 
Wide differences of Opinion as to Man’s Origin—Outline of the Theory 
of Natural Selection—Different Effects of Natural Selection on 
Animals and on Man—Infiuence of External Nature in the develop- 
ment of the Human Mind—Extinction of Lower Races—The Origin 
of the Races of Man—The Bearing of these Views on the Antiquity 
of Man—Their Bearing on the Dignity and Supremacy of Man— 
Their Bearing on the future Development of Man—Summary—Con- 
clusion , : 3 : f + 167-185 
IX. Tae Liurts or Naturat SELECTION AS APPLIED TO Man 
What Natural Selection can Not do—The Brain of the Savage shown 
to be Larger than he Needs it to be—Size of Brain an important 
Element of Mental Power—Comparison of the Brains of Man and of 
Anthropoid Apes—Range of Intellectual Power in Man—Intellect of 
Savages and of Animals compared—The use of the Hairy Covering 
of Mammalia—The Constant Absence of Hair from certain parts of 
Man’s body a remarkable Phenomenon—Savage Man feels the want 
of this Hairy Covering—Man’s Naked Skin could not have been pro- 
duced by Natural Selection—Feet and Hands of Man considered as 
Difficulties on the Theory of Natural Selection—The Voice of Man— 
—The Origin of some of Man’s Mental Faculties, by the preservation 
of Useful Variations, not possible—Difficulty as to the Origin of the 
Moral Sense—Summary of the Argument as to the Insufficiency of 
Natural Selection to account for the Development of Man—The 
Origin of Consciousness—The Nature of Matter—Matter is Force 
—All Force is probably Will-foree—Conclusion . - 186-214 
