Darwinism and the evolution of man . weverfaintly, the path ancestral man has trod. We can estimate hispatient ingenuity and marvel at his perennial courage. At onetime surrounded by tropical carnivores, deadly and terrible, andat another time pierced by the storms of arctic winters ; a prey todiseases he could not cure, and bewildered by the unseen forcesthat encompassed him ; wandering through every form of error toarrive at the first glimmerings of truth; with no aid and noknowledge from without; witless of the metals that were underhis feet, of the wealth of agriculture always in his reach
Darwinism and the evolution of man . weverfaintly, the path ancestral man has trod. We can estimate hispatient ingenuity and marvel at his perennial courage. At onetime surrounded by tropical carnivores, deadly and terrible, andat another time pierced by the storms of arctic winters ; a prey todiseases he could not cure, and bewildered by the unseen forcesthat encompassed him ; wandering through every form of error toarrive at the first glimmerings of truth; with no aid and noknowledge from without; witless of the metals that were underhis feet, of the wealth of agriculture always in his reach ; it waswith a weapon of flint that he carved his fortune and smote hisadversaries, and raised himself from where he once stood, a littlehigher than the beasts, to where he stands now, a little lowerthan the angels. CLEGG S STEAM PRINTING WORKS, EXPLANATION OF PLATE. The Figures marked A represent thicorresponding stages of the development othe embryo of a fish, a rabbit, and a manThe gill-slits are drawn in thick lines In all three instances the arteries supplying the gill-slits are after the pattenshown in Figure D. The Figures marked B show a furthestage in the evolution of the th: Th gill-slitdeveloped 01apparatus; 1and of themBoth of the;the fish, hnviThe Flu nf the fish 2 lines of a water-breathingthe gill-slits of the rabbitre undergoing , as well as that ofmovable tail. ? marked C show that,whereas the gill-slits are permanent in thewater-breathing fish, they have disappeared, as altogether useless, in the rabbit and the The Figure marked E shows, by thedarker shading, the permanent arrangementof the arteries of a mammal. The lightershading indicates the useless portions thatare generally absorbed ; but they some-times remain as rudiments. The Figures marked F show some ofthe muscles of the human e
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