The first man and his place in creation : considered on the principles of science and common sense from a Christian point of view : with an appendix on the Negro / by George Moore.

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1866
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    by black colour, slender bones, and the less massive jaws.' * What a mixed breed of apes must have met from abroad to constitute Englishmen with such a variety of skull and complexion ! He adds : 'If in the different regions of the globe anthropoid apes may issue from different stocks, we cannot see why these different stocks should be denied the further development into the human type, and that only one stock should possess this privilege; in short, we cannot see why American races of man may not be derived from American apes, negroes from African apes, or Negritos, perhaps, from Asiatic apes!'t Anatomists and physiologists who can reason on facts, as well as observe them, have not yet in this manner attempted to account for the diversities of man- kind ; and, therefore, as Carl Vogt's argument is founded on imagination, with the aid of if and perhaps, these words, weak as they are, may be equally well employed to overthrow what is built on so slender a basis. While, however, we desire to give M. Vogt all honour for his patient labour as an anatomist, and for the candid boldness with which he teaches his pupils the mysteries of his miserable creed, we cannot but deplore the aptitude he evinces to misinterpret the facts of human history, and the utter repugnance he has so strenuously exhibited to any idea supposed to be of divine origin, except through development from apes. The blindness of prejudice against Christianity is too clearly the cause of his inability to see why men, who cannot * IHd., p 465. t Ibid., p. 466.