CHAPTER XXVI. 



RESULTS OF ANTHKOPOGENT.' 



Review of the Germ-history as given. — Its Explanation by the Fundamental 

 Law of Biogeny. — Its Causal Eelation to the History of the Tribe. — 

 Kudimentary Organs of Man. — Dysteleology, or the Doctrine of Pnr- 

 poselessness. — Inheritances from Apes. — Man's Place in the Natnral 

 System of the Animal Kingdom. —Man as a Vertebrate and a Mammal. 

 — Special Tribal Eelation of Men and Apes. — Evidences regarding the 

 Ape Question. — The Catarhina and the Platyrhina. — The Divine Origin 

 of Man. — Adam and Eve. — History of the Evolution of the Mind. — 

 Important Mental Differences within a Single Class of Animals. — The 

 Mammalian Mind and the Insect Mind. — Mind in the Ant and in the 

 Scale-louse [Coccus). — Mind in Man and in Ape. — The Organ of Mental 

 Activity : the Central Nervous System. — The Ontogeny and Phy- 

 logeny of the Mind. — The Monistic and Dualistic Theories of the 

 Mind. — Heredity of the Mind. — Bearing of the Fundamental Law of 

 Biogeny on Psychology. — Influence of Anthropogeny on the Victory of 

 the Monistic Philosophy and the Defeat of the Dualistic. — Nature and 

 Spirit. — Natural Science and Spiritual Science. — Conception of the 

 World reformed by Anthropogeny. 



"The Theory of Descent is a general inductive law which results with 

 absolute necessity from the comparative synthesis of all the phenomena of 

 organic nature, and especially from the threefold parallel of phyloo-enetic 

 ontogenetic, and systematic evolution. The doctrine that man has de- 

 veloped from lower Vertebrates, and immediately from genuine Apes is 

 a special deductive conclusion, which results with absolute necessity from 

 the general inductive law of the Theory of Descent. This view of • man's 



