736 MAMMALIA. 



If man was naturally evolved, the factors in the process 

 require elucidation, but in regard to these we can only 

 speculate. From what we know of men and monkeys, it 

 seems likely that, in the struggles of primitive man, wits 

 were of more use than strength. When the habits of using 

 sticks and stones, of building shelters, of living in families 

 began — and they have begun among monkeys — it is likely 

 that wits would grow rapidly. The prolonged infancy, 

 characteristic of human offspring, would help to evolve 

 gentleness. But even more important is the fact that among 

 monkeys there are distinct societies. Families combine for 

 protection, the combination favours the development of 

 emotional and intellectual strength. " Man did not make 

 society ; society made man." 



Finally, it is plain that all repugnance to the doctrine of 

 descent as applied to man should disappear when we 

 clearly realise the great axiom of evolution, that "there 

 is nothing in the end which was not also in the beginning." 



