CHAPTER IV.. The Evolution of Man.

THE EVOLUTION OF MAN.

The vital question. -- All evolutionists agree here. -- The two accounts of Bible and Evolution. -- Arguments from origin of species. -- Argument from similarity of structure. -- Argument from human characteristics. -- Rudimentary organs in man. -- The "gill-slits." -- How the brute became man. -- Prof. Edward Clodd's account of "The Making of a Man." -- Edward Morris' description of primeval man. -- The Theistic Evolutionist's Adam and how he fell. -- The Missing Link. -- The Calaveras skull. -- Neanderthal skull. -- Haeckel's "Pithecanthropus-Erectus." -- The Colorado monkey's skeleton. -- Croatia skeletons. -- Argument from the brain. -- Prof. Clodd's story of how man got his brain. -- Argument from language. -- Prof. Max Mueller's protest. -- Argument from prehistoric man.--Antiquity of man. -- Testimony as to man's recent origin from Prof. George Frederick Wright, S. R. Pattison, Prof. Friedrich Pfaff, Winchell, Dr. J. A. Zahm.--Argument from uncivilized races. -- Argument from history of limits of man's history. -- Evolution and religion. -- Evolution's ethics. -- Christian experience.--Christ and evolution. 60