Darwinism tested by language / by Frederic Bateman, with a preface by Edward Meyrick Goulburn.

  • Frederick Bateman
Date:
1877
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Credit: Darwinism tested by language / by Frederic Bateman, with a preface by Edward Meyrick Goulburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CHAPTER 11. *' Non enim est e saxo sculptus aut e robore dolatus, habet corpus, babet animura, movetur mente, movetur sensibus. CiCEEo. Acad. Prior, ii. 36. Evolution theory contrasted tvith the Scriptural account of the origin of Man—The Monistic and Bmlistic hypotheses—The Primordial Germ—What brought it into existence ?—Archdeacon Pratt's and Dr. Reichcl's views—Mr. Disraeli on Evolution. In the preceding chapter, I have endeavoured to epitomise the views of Mr. Darwin and of Professor Haeckel as to the origin of the human race; the former tracing man's pedigree up to the Ascidian Mollusk, whilst, according to the German naturalist, the first ancestor of man was a much more simple organism—