Eagle Pass Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1894 Page: 6 of 8
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What is Man?
It was a very large audience
which listened last evening to
President Jordan’s last lecture
of his course on “Man’s Place in
Nature.”
“I borrow that title from Hux-
ley,’, he began. “I do not know
of any better title, and I borrow
it for the reason that Huxley’s
essay fifteen years ago contains
all we know now.
“Man’s place in nature from
the general standpoint of evolu-
tion is a minor question. Man
is the finished product of evolu-
tion, but not the only one
There are three or four species
of man; there 20,000,000 species
of other animals, and man is
only one of these 20,000,000.
We have been studying many
of these species; they are more
easily studied than man; they
develop more rapidly and are
more attainable.
“We have discovered the ex-
istence of the phenomenon of
homology. Examine a dog’s
arm superficially and it is differ-
ent from a man’s; examine it
carefully, especially below the
surface, and you will find there
is absolute correspondence be-
tween every muscle, bone, artery,
and nerve. This correspondence
is what is called homology. If
you will go through all the back-
boned animals from man to the
lowest fish you will find this
resemblance. If we see such re-
semblances between two people
we say they look like brothers.
We recognize the stamp of hered-
ity. The reason why we believe
we are descended from a com-
mon stock is the resemblances
in body and form that exist
among men. Homology is the
stamp of hereditary closeness,
and the homology marks the
close- ness of blood relationship.
“There is no objection to this
blood relationship being shown
by homology in other animals
and in plants. They sprang
from a common stock, but it is
different when the rule is ap-
plied to man. Yet there are no
two groups of animals that
show more perfect homology
than man and monkeys in every
structure and in most of the
mental processes. Every single
difference is a difference of degree.
If homology means blood rela-
tionship in other cases, it means
so here; for science is built on the
law of continuity. There are
apparent violations of the law,
but complete knowledge explains
them. Scientists thought there
was something in the relation-
ship between man and monkey,
and that they sprang from a
common stock.
“So from homology we con-
clude that man sprang from a
being closely allied to monkeys
There is no doubt that he did not
spring from any of the monkey
stocks that exist to-day.
“Darwin came to the conclu-
sion that man and apes were
from simian stock; not from anv
form now living but from an
arboreal form because in devel-
opment it passes through a
period of life with strong arms,
hairy, with mobile, pointed ears,
large jaws and ridges on the
skull. We know that there is
tendency in man to smaller jaws
and weaker muscles and special-
ization of hair. Another idea of
Darwin was that man must
have had a short tail and all
forms of man and beast in
embryo have tails.
“In 1758 Linnaeus classified
under the head primates the
lemurs or semi-apes, the New
World monkey, the Old World
monkeys and man. In general
structure man goes with the Old
World monkeys.
“There is a difference between
Old World monkeys and those
of the New. The latter have not
shared iu the progress of the
former. The most striking dif-
ference is not between man and
and the apes, but between mon-
keys and man as a whole and
the lemurs. If we were not the
classifiers we would never have
hesitated in placing man among
the members of the group of
monkeys, and were we unpre-
judiced would we have ever
doubted our common descent?
Attempts at the separation of
man from the rest of the pri-
mates have been made by quot-
ing structural differences. The
tail—Man has it in embryo, and
some monkeys have as little as
man. The hair—Low races of
men are covered with hair, only
the higher ones have it special-
ized. The great toe of monkeys
stands out; in some races of men
it does the same, and the bones
are the same; it is a question of
different conditions. Monkeys
have no longer arms. The prim-
itive races of men have longer
arms, as also the remains of pre-
historic men. Man’s attitude is
erect, monkeys walk in various
ways. Civilized man is more
erect than other races. It is a
question of degree. In monkeys
there are larger jaws and maxil-
lary processes. In prehistoric
man you will find the same thing.
In man the brain is larger and is
growing. The brain of monkeys
will compare with those of the
lower races of man.
“The mental distinctions are
greater. Speech—every race of
man has some form. All the
animals make noises, but the use
of conventional sounds * was
thought to be peculiar to man
But Prof. Garner claims that he
has heard monkeys talk in their
own forests. Man has the
power of .abstract thought, but
we do recognize in animals some-
thing like it, and though it re-
mains as a difference it is a mat-
ter of degree. Man looks before
and after; the monkeys do not.
Man uses tools; monkeys do at
times when placed within their
reach, but they never manufac-
ture them. Man makes use of
fire, is a record-keeper and re-
cognizes the rights of others.
These are possessed by primitive
man in but a small degree, and
in apes the beginning of their use
can be recognized.
“Where does man come from?
There are a great many theories.
First, that he is a wholly inde-
pendent creation. This theory
would never have been used had
not been interested parties,
brothers on tree tops.
“Primitive man was a creature
of large unused possibilities.
This we know from his evolution.
“There are difficulties in the
way of the direct study of origin
of man. It leads to no results,
as does the study of heredity,
and science seeks results. Indi-
rect methods,ho wever,yield more
than direct, and more is to be
learned though embryology than
archgeology.
“The earliest writers said pri-
mitive man was no nearer begi-
nnig than we are, and we make
up for greater distance by higher
methods. Man has existed for
probably 100,000 years, and the
fossil bones of man and monkeys
of 5000 years of age would scar-
cely fill a bushel basket. The Nean-
dertheal skull shows similar char-
acters; its age no one knows.
If we search for the missing link
we shall not find it in a man-ape,
not in a generalized creature ca-
pable of developing into either
form.”
The lecturer finished by quoting
from Boveson:
A sacred kingship I would not forego
Bind* me to all that breathes.
I am the child of earth and air and sea
My lullaby by hoarse Silurian storms
Was chanted. This endless changing form
Of plant and bird and beast unceasingly
The toiling ages wrought to fashion me
—San Fransisco Call.
The Eagle Pass Guide of last
week contained a perfect rush of
accounts about the balls and par-
ties of the holidays. The little
city on the Rio Grande possesses
a splendid citzenship and a rat-
tling good newspaper.—Brackett
News.
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My entire stock of sheep, consisting
between 6500 and 7000
bead of well
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Now running about fifteen miles south
of Eagle Pass at my ranch.
The Sheep are
IN FAIR CONDITION,
And can be seen at any time. For
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MRS. J0SEFA STONE,
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we
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Second, that man is descended
from the anthropoid apes, be-
cause they seems most like to
men. Modern investigation
shows, however, that this is un-
tenable, and man is not descended
from any of the existing species.
Third, that man is a separate
offshoot from the lemurs based
on the resemblace of the teeth.
This is not scientific. Fourth,
that man sprang up by saltatory
evolution, was an abnormal
birth, as was the case with the
Ancon sheep. Thisis unnecessary
as no growth of centuries. Fifth
that man’s body comefrom these
lower forms, but that the spine
of man was a separate introduc-
tion into the brain by some ex-
tra-natural process. There is no-
thing to be Said against this if
one chooses to believe it, except
that such an idea is a violation
of the law of continuity.
There is another view which I
need for my own use and that is
that man is the descendant of a
nomadic ape which by contact
with all manner of surroundings
rose out of the narrow life of our
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