﻿lubbock's 
  progenitor 
  of 
  man. 
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  is 
  not 
  the 
  direction 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  blind 
  forces 
  

   of 
  Natural 
  Selection 
  could 
  ever 
  work. 
  The 
  

   creature 
  u 
  not 
  worthy 
  to 
  be 
  called 
  a 
  man," 
  to 
  

   whom 
  Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock 
  has 
  referred 
  as 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   genitor 
  of 
  Man, 
  was, 
  ex 
  liypotlicsi, 
  deficient 
  in 
  

   those 
  mental 
  capacities 
  which 
  now 
  distinguish 
  

   the 
  lowest 
  of 
  the 
  human 
  race. 
  To 
  exist 
  at 
  

   all, 
  this 
  creature 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  more 
  animal 
  

   in 
  its 
  structure 
  ; 
  it 
  must 
  have 
  had 
  bodily- 
  

   powers 
  and 
  organs 
  more 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  

   beasts. 
  The 
  continual 
  improvement 
  and 
  per- 
  

   fection 
  of 
  these 
  would 
  be 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  

   variation 
  most 
  favourable 
  to 
  the 
  continuance 
  

   of 
  the 
  species. 
  These 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  modified 
  

   in 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  greater 
  weakness 
  without 
  

   inevitable 
  destruction, 
  until 
  first 
  by 
  the 
  gift 
  

   of 
  reason 
  and 
  of 
  mental 
  capacities 
  of 
  con- 
  

  

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