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biologist of our day can accept. It has become clearly apparent 
are simply of degree, not at all of kind, and that both physically — 
: a mentally man comes into close contact with the lower forms 
pon oe life, They do not only touch, they are intimately interwoven. 
‘one the basis on which he rests. It is the soil from which he 
THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
VoL. xx.— JUNE, 1886.—No. 6. 
THE MAKING OF MAN. 
BY CHARLES MORRIS. 
OR a period of many millions of years—how many not even 
Conjecture can decide—the world of vertebrate life continued 
quadrupedal, the seeming deviations therefrom being rather appa- 
rent than real. Suddenly a true biped appeared. Fora period 
of equal duration the mentality of animals developed with exces- 
sive slowness. Suddenly a highly intellectual animal appeared. 
The coming of man indicated, both physically and mentally, an 
extraordinary deviation from the established course of organic 
development. Both physically and mentally, evolution seems to 
have taken an enormous leap, instead of proceeding by its usual 
minute steps; and in the advent of the human species we have a 
mmarkable problem, whose solution is as difficult as iti joe . 
portant. : 
It might be solved in a moment were we able to accept the eS 
arguments of those who hold that man is the outcome of a dis- _ ere 
tinct act of creation, and is invested with powers and qualities, > 
and prepared for a destiny, in which from the beginning he has 
Stood apart from all other living beings. Yet these arguments no 
a 
that the points of distinction between man and the lower animals 
ey is an intricate net-work of structural relations which binds 
he inextricably to the realm of lower life. This realm is not 
