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surely mean Divine Guidance; or else, inasmuch as dif- 
ferentiation is said to be guided by the surroundings of 
the organisms, it was a wondrous cozczdence that 
Species in two Hemispheres should have had such sur- 
roundings through millions of years, as should have by 
Variation guided their frames to an identical result. 
The descent of the other ‘Eutheria;’ ELEPHANTS; 
Wates; SEALS; CARNIVORA; is of equal and similar 
interest. 
Of the SEALs there is absolutely “xo clue to their 
origin.” 
The lower form of Dogs (carnivora) “ approach” the 
‘Insectivora’ (represented in Europe by the Hedge-hog, 
Mole, and Shrew), in their dentition: and, ‘“ having 
rudiments of clavicles and of a fifth hind toe,” must therefore 
be descended from ancestors ‘wth well-developed clavt- 
cles ;”’ and five toes; which conditions are found in the 
‘Insectivora:’ and the conclusion is that “ous present dogs 
have been traced back to the Eocene and Pre-eocene Insect- 
eaters” to which class Professor Huxley traces not only 
the Carnivora, but also the Ungulata. 
Quadrupedal ancestors are claimed for the WHALE 
from among the Hoofed Group. 
All other demands upon the imagination, made by 
this theory of Evolution, are dwarfed before the spectacle 
called up of four legged ancestors of the Whale wandering 
in abundant numbers on the shores of the primeval oceans, 
and at last betaking themselves to the deep, and absorbing, 
reducing, or aborting their no longer serviceable hind- 
legs: until nothing but the “radiments of a pelvis,” with 
“ sometimes the last remnant of a thigh bone,”’ remain to 
them: modifications, indeed, of forms once ‘‘c/assed in 
the widest sense of the word with the primary Hoofed 
Animals which still possessed five toes, both on the fore and 
