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humed out of the debris of an age immedi- 

 ately antecedent to both: just as the gigantic 

 mammoth was dug out of the congealing bos- 

 om of Siberia's ice in 1800 and the three-toed 

 palzeotherium, rude ancestor of our valued 

 horse, was disinterred from the profound of 

 the Eocene in earlier years. 



The wonderful progressive presentation of 

 forms ascending from day to day in the scale 

 of organized beings exhibited by our species 

 in the foetal state and remarked by the phys- 

 iologist, is another substantiation of my theory 



Man, in the womb, passes through all the 

 embryo forms of the types of the known di- 

 visions of animated Nature : first but a germ, 

 he then resembles mollusk, fish, reptile, bird, 

 rodent, ruminant, and batrich, finally assum- 

 ing unmistakeable features of the human ani- 

 mal. Thus we see a significant panorama 

 of the momentous changes which occurred in 

 the course of ages displayed in the short space 

 of nine months in the mysterious womb. 



Primal matter to zoophyte, to crustacean, 

 to fish, to saurian, to mammal and to Man ! 

 the inferior forms disappearing when their al- 

 lotted work was done and the improved era 

 no longer warranted theirthen inutile existence 



