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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Man And His Ancestor, by Charles Morris This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Author: Charles Morris Release Date: April 2, 2009 [EBook #28471] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAN AND HIS ANCESTOR *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Carla Foust, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note Printer errors have been changed and are listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. MAN AND HIS ANCESTOR _A STUDY IN EVOLUTION_ BY CHARLES MORRIS AUTHOR OF "CIVILIZATION: AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF ITS ELEMENTS," "THE ARYAN RACE," ETC. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. 1900 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. PREFACE It would be difficult to find any intelligent person in this age of the world who has not some theory or opinion in regard to the origin of man, and perhaps almost as difficult to find any such person who can give a good and sufficient reason for the faith that is in him. This is especially the case with those who look upon man as a product of evolution, a natural outgrowth from the world of lower life, since here simple faith or ancient authority is not sufficient, as in the creation hypothesis, but scientific evidence and logical argument are necessary. It is to enable this class of readers to test the quality and sufficiency of their belief that this book has been prepared. The question of the evolutionary origin of man has been by no means neglected by recent authors, yet it has been dealt with chiefly as a side issue in works of a more extended purpose, and largely in technical language, simple to the scientist, but difficult to the general reader. The only work that makes this subject its leading theme, Darwin's "Descent of Man," adds to it a still longer treatise on "Sexual Selection," so that the subject of man's evolut
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