304 THE CASE AGAINST EVOLUTION 



says Dwight, "I thought that I must be very ignorant, because 

 I could not understand how the occasional appearance in man 

 of a peculiarity of some animal outside of any conceivable 

 line of descent could be called a reversion, as it soon became 

 the custom to call it. . . . It was only later that I grasped 

 the fact that the reason I could not understand these things 

 was that there was nothing to understand. It was sham science 

 from beginning to end." {Op. cit, p. 209.) By way of anom- 

 aly, almost any human peculiarity can occur in animals, and, 

 conversely, any bestial peculiarity in man, but the resemblance 

 to man of an animal outside of the alleged line of human de- 

 scent represents a grave difiQculty for the theory of evolution, 

 and not an argument in its favor. 



The human body is certainly not a mosaic of heterogenetic 

 organs, i.e. a complex of structures inherited from any and 

 every sort of animal, whether extant or extinct; for such 

 a vast number and variety of ancestors could not pos- 

 sibly have cooperated to produce man. Prof. D. Ca- 

 razzi, in his Address of Inauguration in the Chair of 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of 

 Padua, Jan. 20, 1906, excoriated with scathing irony the sham 

 Darwinian science, of which Dwight complains. "But even 

 in the serious works of pure science," says the Italian zoolo- 

 gist, ''we read, for example, that the over-development of the 

 postauricular muscles sometimes observed in man is an ata- 

 vistic reminiscence of the muscles of the helix of the ear of 

 the horse and the ass. And so far so good, because it gives 

 evidence of great modesty in recognizing as our ancestors 

 those well-deserving and long-eared quadrupeds. But this is 

 not all ; there appear at times in a woman one or more anoma- 

 lous mammary glands below the pectoral ones; and here, too, 

 they insist on explaining the anomaly as a reversion to type, 

 that is, as an atavistic reminiscence of the numerous mammary 

 glands possessed by different lower mammals; the bitch, for 

 example. . . . 



''But the supernumerary mammary glands are not a rever- 



