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 the old. The cultivation of the apple does not convert it into a pear. The development of the pear will not change it into a peach. In the development of the dog there is no approach to the horse, to the ape, or to man. By the favoring of the superior tendencies in the apple, pear, peach, dog, or in any fruit or animal, they become simply more perfect forms of their respective species. The development of the ape can result only in a more perfect ape, making wider the distinction between that oft exalted quadruped, but vilest of beasts, and man.

Development therefore is a law of nature, and operates in the direction precisely opposite to Evolution; for development intensifies the species, while Evolution would change it. Development preserves the perfection of species, while Evolution would destroy it.

The civilization of man is not Evolution. It is simply the development of faculties which he already has, and the cultivation of tastes. The civilization of man does not turn him into a new species; it only makes him a more perfect man. In speaking with scientific accuracy there must always be this vast difference between development and Evolution, and the terms can not be technically used as synonymous.