ILLUSTRATIONS. Page The Man-like Ape .. 9 Catarrhine or Old World Monkey (Macacus) 19 31 Convex Surface of the Left Hemisphere, showing the Disposition and Arrangement of the Cerebral Convolutions 37 84 84 127 CHAPTER I. "To whom the winged hierarch replied: Preliminary Remarks-Darwinism defined-Man's Genealogical Tree-The "Missing Link" between Man and the Man-like Ape--No fossil remains of the Ape-like Man-The Ascidian, man's remote ancestor-Dean of Canterbury's reflections on the Ascidian descent of Man-Haeckel's Moner-The Protistic Kingdom. Perhaps no works in modern times have been so largely read and so freely criticised, and have exercised so great an influence for good or for evil, as the "Origin of Species" and the "Descent of Man." B 2 DARWINISM TESTED BY LANGUAGE. The subject of which they treat is one of such absorbing personal interest, as tending to gratify the ardent desire for knowledge of the "where, the whence, and the whither," of the human race, that these books have been received and perused with avidity, not only by professed naturalists, theologians, and men of science, but by a far wider circle of general readers. It has been said of Luther that he was the monk that shook the world. It may with equal propriety be said that Mr. Darwin is the naturalist, who, by a hypothesis so strangely at variance with our traditions, has threatened to shake the foundations of the religious world. The theory enunciated in his writings, trenching as it does upon questions of the last importance and of the most absorbing interest to man, has been welcomed by |