Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from On the Origin of Language
If, now, the doctrine of Lamarck, Gothe, and Darwin, that all animals are descended from one common type, or from a few such types, is really true, and it is beyond all doubt; and if, accordingly, this doctrine of transmutation is a great general law of induction, then we must set down as an inevitable consequence of it, as a deduction following necessarily from it, the conclusion that the human race also has arisen in a similar way, by the long and tedious path of organic development and transforma tion; that it likewise, through natural selection in the struggle for existence, has gradually developed itself through different stages from low animal organisms, and immediately from a class of mammals resembling the apes. How this highly important conclusion has been established on a positive basis by all the general facts of zoology and anthropology, and especially by the history of the (embryological) development of man in particular, I have shown in detail in my General Morphology of Organisms, (berlin, 1866, Vol. II, pp. CXLI, 423.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
