CONTENTS 
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plained by Natural Selection — Adaptation brought about by General 
Laws — Beauty in Nature — How New Forms are produced by Varia- 
tion and Selection — The Objection that there are Limits to Variation 
— Objection to the Argument from Classification — ’The Times on 
Natural Selection — Intermediate or generalised Forms of Extinct 
Animals an indication of Transmutation or Development — Conclu- 
sion — A Demonstration of the Origin of Species by Natural Selection 
Pages 141-166 
VIII. The Development of Human Races under the Law 
of Natural Selection 
Wide differences of Opinion as to Man’s Origin — Outline of the Theory 
of Natural Selection — Different Effects of Natural Selection on 
Animals and on Man — Influence of External Nature in the develop- 
ment of the Human Mind — Extinction of Lower Races — The Origin 
of the Races of Man — The Bearing of these Views on the Antiquity 
of Man — Their Bearing on the Dignity and Supremacy of Man — 
Their Bearing on the future Development of Man — Summary — Con- 
clusion ....... 167-185 
IX. The Limits of Natural Selection as Applied to Man 
What Natural Selection can Not do — The Brain of the Savage shown 
to be Larger than he Needs it to be — Size of Brain an important 
Element of Mental Power — Comparison of the Brains of Man and of 
Anthropoid Apes — Range of Intellectual Power in Man — Intellect of 
Savages and of Animals compared — The use of the Hairy Covering 
of Mammalia — The Constant Absence of Hair from certain 1 parts of 
Man’s body a remarkable Phenomenon — Savage Man feels the want 
of this Hairy Covering — Man’s Naked Skin could not have been pro- 
duced by Natural Selection — Feet and Hands of Man considered as 
Difficulties on the Theory of Natural Selection — The Voice of Man — 
— The Origin of some of Man’s Mental Faculties, by the preservation 
of Useful Variations, not possible — Difficulty as to the Origin of the 
Moral Sense — Summary of the Argument as to the Insufficiency of 
Natural Selection to account for the Development of Man — The 
Origin of Consciousness — The Nature of Matter — Matter is Force 
— All Force is probably Will-force — Conclusion . . 186-214 
