EMBRYOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 



the development of the species; if they are consistent they 

 will demand that we return to the teachings of the "pre- 

 formationists" of the eighteenth century — to the idea of end- 

 less encasement of one generation within an earlier one and 

 hence to the special and supernatural creation of every child 

 of Adam in the creation of Adam himself. When that comes 

 to pass, there will probably be a demand that the teaching 

 of embryology shall be abolished in all schools and colleges. 

 How much truer and better is the view that God made the 

 first man as he has made the last and that divine power and 

 wisdom are shown just as fully in the development of the 

 last human child as in the origin of the first! The actual 

 facts of development are no less wonderful than any conceiv- 

 able acts of creation — indeed they are vastly more wonderful 

 than any that were ever conceived in prescientific times. 

 Just as astronomy and geology and physics and chemistry 

 have given us grander views of the universe than were ever 

 dreamed of before, so biology, and especially the study of 

 development and evolution, have given us grander views of 

 the living world — its unity, its antiquity, its mystery — than 

 were ever before held or suspected. 



REFERENCES 



/. Older Classical Works 



Agassiz, Louis. Methods of Study in Natural History, Boston, 

 1863. * 



Baer, Karl Ernst von. Ueber Entwicklungsgeschichte der 

 Thiere. Konigsberg, 1828.^ 



Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species. First edition, 1859; 

 sixth edition, 1877. Appleton, New York. The Descent of 

 Man. First edition, 1871; second edition, 1874. Appleton, 

 New York. 



Haeckel, Ernst. Natural History of Creation (English transla- 

 tion, 1870), 2 vols. Appleton, 1906. The Evolution of Man 

 (English translation, 1879). Putnam, 1910. 



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