498 Recent Literature. [June, 



man is a man, and not a monkey, whether his first progenitors be- 

 came men by special creation from a lump of clay, or whether 

 they were developed from a man-like animal. We are not pagans, 

 robbers, murderers, manstealers, living by rapine and dealing in 

 bloodshed, and yet it is almost certain that we are descended from 

 ancestors who were pagans, robbers, murderers, and manstealers, 

 nor does it matter now whether these our ancestors were suddenly 

 changed from heathen pirates to Christian herdsman and agricul- 

 turists, or whether a generation or two elapsed during the change. 

 The change has taken place, and that is enough." 



The author then argues that though we are reasonable beings, 

 we were not always so, i. e. in early infancy, and hence he claims 

 " the difficulties regarding the passage from an animal to a man, 

 and the possession of a soul are the same in the case of the indi- 

 vidual man as they are in the case of the race." 



We would recommend this book to the general reader, while 

 parents and teachers will find in the last chapter on the " Devel- 

 opment of Individuals," some practical hints as to the care of 

 children. 



The author's views are expressed with so much earnestness, 

 simplicity and attractiveness, that we feel sure the book will 

 be widely read. It is, in spite of some points which might be criti- 

 cised, the best of the sort which has yet been published, and de- 

 serves wide circulation. 



Chautauqua Tkxt-Books, No. 22, Biblical Biology. 1 — Forty- 

 one pages of false science mingled with true, the better to 

 suit the babes who suck at the Chautauqua milk-bottle. The 

 tract would not be worthy notice were it not for the contempt- 

 uous tone adopted by the clerical writer towards scientists who, 

 since they are not clerical, have freed themselves from the slavery 

 of clericalism. " Cobbler, stick to your last," is good advice to 

 all clergymen, who, though interested in some branch of biology, 

 go out of their way to depreciate those whose broader view 

 enables them to discern the tendency of proven facts. Every 

 non-evolutionist that works in biology is heaping up facts to his 

 own condemnation. 



After a tilt at monism, at Bichat, at Carpenter, and at Herbert 

 Spencer, the author quotes the Rev. Jos. Cook. He then tries to 

 squeeze help out of Huxley, notwithstanding that writer's known 

 tendencies in an opposite direction. 



In the teeth of all the facts that prove that living beings are 

 constantly changing, changing even in a kw years, while one 

 man's eye can watch and record the changes ; in the teeth of the 

 shading of variety into species; of the production of generic 

 characters by a slight acceleration or retardation under cha "? e * 

 of environment; in the teeth of proofs as clear as those on i- 1,,cn 



Biology. By Rev. J. 



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