Excerpt from Evolution of the Human Race From Apes and of Apes From Lower Animals: A Doctrine Unsanctioned by Science The following pages comprise two Lectures originally delivered to audiences of Ladies and Gentlemen in the Botanical Theatre of University College, London: - the first on the evening of October 29, 1874, and the second on the evening of October 12, 1875. I now publish them, in the hope that they may serve as a means of counteracting efforts made throughout the country by half-informed persons to propagate the Doctrine of Evolution. Those efforts, it may be observed, are manifested under two different characters. Thus, while the more logical of the Propagandists referred to do not shrink from the conclusions which necessarily flow from the doctrine, a weak-minded class commit the absurdity of trying to reconcile the doctrine with Belief in a personal First Cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.