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a primary form that lies beyond all the paleontological 
discoveries yet made,’ and “with this division of the living 
world, we may be satd upon the whole to stand utterly help- 
less as vegavds Geological antiquity tn so far as the 
question refers to a special proof for the origin of species.” 
This writer seems not to do, what elsewhere I have 
felt compelled to point out, keep back the facts, and 
admissions which might be useful to opponents. Many 
times regret is expressed at the failure of facts to prop up 
the theory of his choice. Had he chosen differently we 
cannot but believe that all the information might have 
been used ‘con’ instead of ‘pro.’ 
All persons not within reach of good libraries, should 
be grateful to this author for having collected all that 
can be said in favour of Evolution of the Mammalian 
Order (including as it does Man, and being the Order of 
which the ‘missing-link’ might most reasonably be 
expected to be traced in the numerous, and giant remains) 
by such of the eminent German Palzontologists as agree 
with his view: for presenting it in a form so free from 
all trace of that “brutality”” towards the views of those 
who would defend the old Faith to which Dr. Réville 
himself alludes: so free also from those tortuous and long 
winded generalities; that free use of abstract terms; 
which make it a science in itself to comprehend the 
nature of the conjectures, and conclusions upon which 
the authors are engaged. We are thankful for his work 
were it only because of the pleasure of reading a treatise 
on the subject, free from the half-dozen cant phrases 
which so elegantly comprise the sum of Darwin’s notions. 
When pointing to Von Nathusius as ‘‘ always vehemently 
opposed to the Doctrine of Descent,” he does not stint to 
speak of him thus “ 
on domesticated animals,’ albeit Darwin, to a great 
unfortunately, our greatest authority 
