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accuracy, and will prove the more valuable on account of that 
disappearance of species which we heartily join with him 
in regretting. 
The book is illustrated with a map showing a division of the 
area into six sub-distri(fts. 
The Morals of Evolution. By M. J. Savage. London: Triib- 
ner and Co. 
A few thinkers are now venturing to trace the origin and the 
growth of that moral code which is, in theory at least, recog- 
nised by the civilised world. They are seeking to prove that 
our ethical system meets with a complete sanction in the very 
constitution of the world around us, with which, like every other 
produdt of Evolution, it must, by the very fadt of its existence, 
be more or less completely in harmony. Such an undertaking 
meets with but little favour among the generality of so-called 
orthodox theologians. For this jealousy there is, we submit, 
no just cause. If certain moral doctrines have, as the majority 
of Europeans and Americans believe, been revealed to us by the 
same Being who created the universe, and if such Being is in- 
finitely wise, we may fairly assume that they will be, not arbi- 
trary and accidental, but in full accord with the nature of man 
and with the circumstances in which he is placed. Thoroughly 
knowing the latter we might infer the former. Hence if con- 
tributions to evolutionist ethics happen to be atheistic this fea- 
ture is not essential. We do not see that either Theism or 
Christianity stands on a less firm footing if it be shown that an 
approximately complete system of moral laws might be de- 
veloped by man from observation and experience, just as a very 
incomplete and fragmentary trace of such laws has been reached 
among certain of the lower animals. A theory is not considered 
to be compromised if we find that it can be arrived at by more 
than one independent procedure. Nor will religion be dis- 
credited if it can be shown that even in the supposed absence 
of a life to come good condudt is sure to be rewarded, and trans- 
gression to be punished. Whether any one has fully succeeded 
in furnishing such proof is of course an open question. 
Mr. Savage undertakes to show that the moral significance 
of the dodtrine of Evolution has been misapprehended ; that it 
is “no hard and cruel force,” but “the power and process by 
which, through the ages, the best is seleaed, preserved, and 
transmitted.” It is, he contends, “of the very essence of Evo- 
lution to take account of Christianity.” From this point of view 
