The book The Origin of the Fittest: Essays On Evolution was written by author Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 Here you can read free online of The Origin of the Fittest: Essays On Evolution book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Origin of the Fittest: Essays On Evolution a good or bad book?
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(Ed. 1886.) Digitized by Google 166 GENERAL EVOLUTION. and murder express their mntnal relations. This is the history of the lowest grade of barbarism^ and the history of primeyal man so far as it has come down to ns in sacred and profane records. Man as a species first appears in history as a sinful being. Then a race maintaining a contest with the prevailing corruption and exhibit- ing a higher moral idea is presented to us in Jewish history. Fi- mUly, early Christian society exhibits a great...ly superior condition of things. In it polygamy scarcely existed, and slavery and war were condemned. But progress did not end here, for our Lord said, ^'I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye can not bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth." The progress revealed to us by history is truly great, and if a similar difference existed between the first of the human species and the first of whose condition we have information, we can con- ceive how low the origin must have been.
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