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Updated: May 23, 2025
We are, as Englishmen, co-heirs, because co-descendants of Classical Antiquity, with France and Italy and Greece, yes also with Germany, for European civilization and not European civilization only is, I reiterate, in essence still Greco-Roman, not Teutonic or Semitic.
From what we see going on under domestication, we learn that some of the co-descendants of the same species may be not at all, some a little, and some greatly changed, all within the same period. Thus it may have been with man, who has undergone a great amount of modification in certain characters in comparison with the higher apes.
But the most curious case is afforded by three allied genera of Australian birds, the famous Bower-birds, no doubt the co-descendants of some ancient species which first acquired the strange instinct of constructing bowers for performing their love-antics. Both sexes assist in the erection of the bowers, but the male is the principal workman.
This system, it is now generally admitted, must be, as far as possible, genealogical in arrangement, that is, the co- descendants of the same form must be kept together in one group, apart from the co-descendants of any other form; but if the parent-forms are related, so will be their descendants, and the two groups together will form a larger group.
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