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hemispheres, the Horse’s alleged transformations are so 
clearly traced through the whole Tertiary period; it adds 
immensely to the significance of Cuvier’s remark: to 
observe that a// parallel traces of Man’s transformation 
have been vainly sought through the world: there is no 
trace whatever of the missing-link. 
Professor Schmidt says little upon the subject of 
_ Man: perhaps there is little to say. “Zhe study of An- 
thropology can in no way boast of having made any 
definite progress during the last ten years.” Hitherto that 
descent has been inculcated by a series of hypotheses, and 
sketches in comparative anatomy (Embryonic, and other- 
wise), all direct evidence as to his Evolution from proto- 
plasm being altogether wanting. Nothing appearing 
clear but that the creatures are framed upon an homoio- 
poietic plan by the Divine Artificer, all which is confirmed 
by Geology, the science: and not shaken by Evolution, 
the theory. 
No help is afforded confirming the alleged arboreal 
ancestry of Man; but in the last page we meet with this, 
“Reason, acquired with speech, has made Man more and 
more independent of the effects of his natural surround- 
mgs.” 
Surely the Being who should acquire simultaneously 
Reason, and Speech; or rather as the order is here Speech 
and Reason: such Speech, and such Reason: as we find 
to be his endowment (acquisition) must be claimed asa 
very special creation. 
As the other ‘Eutheria’ “unfortunately” at their 
first trace are found endowed with their present character- 
istics. So, if possible, in a more marked and ‘unfortunate’ 
(for the theory) manner, this, the highest of all, appears 
from the first THE PERFECT MAN: and it occurs naturally 
that the greater_the success claimed in finding fossil 
