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species of animals, by artificial selection and hereditary trans- 
mission of peculiarities, diversities infinitely greater than 
those existing between the highest and lowest races of man- 
kind ; but, for example, in his work on “ The Expression of 
the Emotions in Man and other Animals,” he says, “ All the 
chief expressions exhibited by man are the same throughout 
the world. This fact is interesting, as it affords a new 
argument in favour of the several races being descended from 
a single parent stock.” And again : “ If we bear in mind 
the numerous points of structure, having no relation to ex- 
pression, in which all the races of man clearly agree, and 
then add to them the numerous points, some of the highest 
importance and many of the most trifling value, on which 
the movements of expression directly or indirectly depend, it 
seems to me improbable in the highest degree that so much 
similarity, or rather identity, of structure could have been 
acquired by independent means, as must have been the case 
if the races of man are descended from several aboriginally 
distinct species. It is far more probable that the many points 
of close similarity in the various races are due to inheritance 
from a single parent form.” 
I must not close this part of my Subject, however, with- 
out indicating briefly the intensely interesting support 
which is being rendered to the cause of the Word of 
Truth, not only on the common origin but also the common 
language of man, by the science of comparative philology. 
Time was when from the apparently different species of 
language the strongest arguments were brought against the 
common origin of man. It is from that same quarter the 
doctrine is now receiving its most weighty support. Great 
authorities like Dr. Latham, regarding it now as a matter of 
fact that all languages had a common origin, argue therefrom 
the original unity of man. In his interesting work on “ The 
Origin of Nations,” Canon Rawlinson, speaking of the 10th of 
Genesis, a chapter written 3,000 years ago by a Jew, for Jews, 
to explain the interconnexion of races, regards it as one of 
the proudest boasts of the nineteenth century that its in- 
ductive science has arrived at almost exactly the same con- 
clusion which Moses, writing 1,500 years before the Christian 
era, laid down dogmatically as simple historical fact. Max 
Muller, haviug affirmed that the evidence of language is 
irrefragable, and is the only evidence worth listening to with 
regard to ante-historical periods — the times when Greece was 
not yet peopled by Greeks, nor India by Hindoos — adds : 
“ Yet before these times there was a period when the ancestors 
of the Celts, the Germans, the Slavonians, the Greeks and 
