Excerpt from On the Origin of Language<br><br>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.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.