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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.
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