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destitute of those intellectual and moral attributes which alone fit man for ter¬ 
restrial sovereignty. If the quadrumana are to be likened to man at all, it 
would seem as though it should be only to the debased and wholly animal 
man whose representative in fiction is Shakespeare’s Caliban. 
The readers of The Savage World will have found out for themselves that 
I have in the introduction and in the chapters preliminary to the various 
orders, at least endeavored to submit the evidence which, to my mind, proves 
conclusively that science is not like the dead languages, a subject under¬ 
stood and exhausted, and that there seems to be with expanding knowledge a 
fuller appreciation of the necessary agreement between intelligent science and 
the Genetic account of the material world. I have regarded evolution as a 
new term, not as a new idea. I accept the fact that the finite mind is 
prone to make 
many mistakes 
in regard to 
the purposes 
and methods of 
the Infinite 
Mind, and 
therefore sug¬ 
gest that, re¬ 
garding evolu¬ 
tion as a method 
of the Creator, 
and not as one 
of the gods of 
the Pantheist, 
there is every¬ 
thing to con¬ 
vince the stu¬ 
dent of its re¬ 
ality and truth. 
An effort has 
been made to 
trace trans¬ 
itions without 
at all detracting 
from the inter¬ 
est or popular 
value of The Savage World. In the various subordinate introductory chapters, 
the fossil forms have been referred to as likely to be of interest to the intelligent 
reader, and as bearing out the conclusions reached by me claiming 
nothing for myself but honesty of purpose and strict adherence to all promises 
made to the reader. The experience of breeders throws light upon and adds 
strength to the doctrine of “natural selection,” and sufficiently shows how 
animals are adapted to their environment. Fossil life has been sufficiently 
dwelt upon to open the field to the ingenious, and enough for the purpose of 
illustration. Classes and orders have been considered so far as they could 
have popular interest, or as they serve for types, and it is believed that no 
