This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...marks the the Descent, ..-.... 111 of Man. beginning of organic life on earth, that he has not an ancestor of his own, like the other great families of living beings, but that he had to wait till the mammals had reached a high degree of development, and that he then stepped into the world as the young or as the child ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...marks the the Descent, ..-.... 111 of Man. beginning of organic life on earth, that he has not an ancestor of his own, like the other great families of living beings, but that he had to wait till the mammals had reached a high degree of development, and that he then stepped into the world as the young or as the child of an ape. Much stress has been laid on this, as a kind of salve to our wounded pride, that man need not consider himself as the direct descendant of any living kind of ape,1 and that he may be laterally only, not lineally descended from a catarrhine ape. I see no meaning in this, nor have I ever understood how the wounded pride of man could be an element in our search for truth. The question is not whether the belief that animals so distant as a man, a monkey, an elephant, and a humming-bird, a snake, a frog, and a fish could all have sprung from the same parents is monstrous,2 but simply and solely whether it can be proved. Appeals to the pride or humility of man, to scientific courage or religious piety, are all equally out of place. We do not complain of the injustice or indignity of our having individually to be born or to die, of our passing through the different stages of embryonic life, of our being made of dust, that is of exactly the same chemical materials from which the bodies of animals are built up.8 Fact against fact, argument against argu 1 Haeckel, Vorlesungen, p. 577. 2 Darwin's Descent, vol. i. p. 203. 8 Bradley, Principles of Logic, p. 466. ment, that is the rule of scientific warfare; a warfare in which to confess oneself convinced or vanquished by truth is often far more honorable than victory. But while protesting against these sentimental outcries, we ought not to allow ourselves to be intimidated either by scientific cla..
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