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Neither do we need a greater concession than this, 
as Mr. Gladstone seems to point out in his ‘Proem to 
Genesis.’ It is beside the question altogether to try the 
accuracy of the succession of the Air, Water, and Land 
populations of the globe (as set down in the Mosaic 
record), by the conflicting details which Professor 
Huxley brings to bear against the revealed account. 
Curious it is how this desire to square all kindred 
subjects with Evolution pervades the Scientific literature 
of the day. One writer considers that the European is 
of more advanced development, than the Mongolian, or 
Red Indian; that it is remarkable in the form of the 
pelvis: but strange to say this argument contradicts the 
theory of development which is ever from lower to higher 
working through its accustomed powers (‘ za¢ural’ and 
‘sexual selection, ‘ struggle for existence, ‘survival of the 
fittest, ©c.), contradicts it by showing the advanced form 
of pelvis to be baneful to the highly developed race 
in parturition: insomuch that Clevinger considers the 
consequent danger upon this phase of development to be 
the appropriate punishment for the original sin of man ; 
which sin consisted in man’s getting upon what were hts 
hind legs / 
It is moreover considered that Man, thus raised, or 
having thus raised himself from his pristine ‘ a// fours’ 
condition, has exposed the femoral artery to the dangers 
of accident and war; and surprise has been expressed 
that this vein has not (by ‘variation’ or ‘natural 
selection, I presume) betaken itself out of danger 
further within the thigh, by means of the survival of 
individuals, to this extent so far fortunate, as to have been 
born with more receding femoral arteries than others, 
and by the transmission of that good fortune to their 
descendants. 
