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Show Nhc time of publication of this re- vlow to the en 1 of life Kant sep: I to have remained vv'iai mny be cll'el 1 r.;j urtaropob g.ca! rro utloaLM: but he Oc 111" -rifely rHured to mlc t'.'.o i transition frcrn this rMfithn to a g '--t .. rral biological evrdutloalrtn. - i'Trt:' ior Arthur O- LoveJ--y in IM'U . Sckneo Monthly. I KANT AMD THE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Kant readily ncee-pts the doctrine that man was originally a four-footed anipial, which, pari passu with its unique development of rationiiity and of the. social instincts, assumed the upright attitude. His promptness In making the views of Moscatl his own certainly indicates a general predisposition predis-position to evolutionary ways of thinkins; and. If we haj 110 oilier expressions ex-pressions .of Kant's dealing with the subject more directly, it would bA tint unnatural to con.-dru thl assertion of the descent of civilized man Irom quadrupedal ancestors as equivalent to an assertion of the mutability of species. Yet the latter doctrine, It must be noted. Is nowhere expressed or directly Implied In the review of Moscatl; and It will presently become clear that Kant would not have regarded re-garded It as a legitimate infrenc from any of his admlvMfns about the ; earlier condltlou of humanity. From |