32 MAN NEVER OTHER THAN MAN. 



As just said, man as we know him in his earliest 

 records, industries, and arts — Egyptian, Assyrian, 

 Indian, and Jewish — was as well endowed formerly 

 as he is now. His mental capacity was as great, 

 and his corporeal frame as perfect. No doubt, con- 

 temporary with those civilised communities, there ex- 

 isted then, as now, tribes like the Australians, Papuans, 

 Andamanese, Esquimaux, Fuegeans, &c, here and 

 there, lost perhaps in barbarism, but nevertheless 

 possessing all the capacity for being educated. 

 Conversely, the remains of man and his industry 

 which have been discovered under geological condi- 

 tions undoubtedly denoting very remote antiquity, 

 are, perhaps, not to be viewed as indications that 

 prehistoric man was everywhere in the apparently 

 low, savage, isolated state in which the people 

 evidently were, whose remains have been discovered, 

 for, possibly, contemporary with them there may have 

 been civilised communities elsewhere on the earth. 



The question of the origin of Man, it must be 

 concluded, is one entirely beyond the pale of Natural 

 Science. But when, where, and howsoever his first 

 advent on the earth took place, this much is certain, 

 that there are no valid grounds in support of the 

 thesis that he ever existed under any other present- 

 ment or embodiment than that of Man. 



And now in conclusion : a great aim of Philoso- 

 phical Anatomy, we have seen, is to discover and 



