How these tiny germs first creatively group- 

 ed together, at Nature's will, out of the vast 

 chaotic void ; what the first formed creature 

 was and what amazingly prevailing law com- 

 pelled their more passive obedience to its mute 

 behest than ever the humblest of the nations 

 abjectly rendered unto the loudest mouthed 

 decree of imperial Alexander; will probably 

 remain forever enshrouded in clewless mystery 

 darkly closed as the burned tomes of the Syb- 

 il to the anxious inquiries of investigating 

 Man. I should venture to imagine, taking 

 the researches of Leeuwenhoek, of Swammer- 

 dam and of Schwann in consideration together 

 with the results I have tediously arrived at 

 by microscopical and generative experiments, 

 that germ cells of the simplest form at first ex- 

 isted; that these obeying the Unknown Cause 

 I have alluded to, gradually extended them- 

 selves branching out like the Banyan tree, but 

 to generate, or metamorphose into, more or 

 less progressive species or varieties; the low- 

 est the next higher, and so on, trilobite to mam- 

 mal : one of the many branches necessarily ter- 

 minating temporarily in a triad : the Lemurs, 

 the Monkeys, and — Man himself. 



Thus appeared the original of our species, 



