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it possesses no head, no brain, no skull, in which the 

 trunk is entirely simple and undivided into head, neck, 

 breast, and abdomen, in which there is no trace of limbs, 

 arms, or legs." l 



Presently the head and limbs bud out of this, one 

 might almost say shapeless mass, much as a flower 

 buds out of the stem of a plant. And thus part by 

 part are put together, all the various components of 

 which an infant is constructed. 2 But always, except 

 the blood and the liquid secretions, it is a structure of 

 cell lying in contact with cell, or divided only by the 

 material secreted by the cells. Always each cell with 

 its nucleus and probably its nucleolus. Every cell a 

 mass of molecules. Every molecule a mass of atoms. 



In describing an analogous process in the dog, the 

 late Professor Huxley stated : 3 u Nature, by this pro- 

 cess, has attained much the same result as that at which 

 a human artificer arrives by his operations in a brick- 

 field. She takes the rough plastic material of the yelk 

 and breaks it up into well shaped tolerably even-sized 

 masses handy for building up into any part of the 



1 "The Evolution of Man," Prof. Ernst Haeckel, vol. i. 1883, 

 p. 253. 



2 " The human individual requires nine months for its perfect de- 

 velopment from the fertilized egg-cell to the moment at which it is 

 born and quits the mother's body. The human embryo, therefore, 

 passes through the whole course of its development in the brief space 

 of 40 weeks (usually in exactly 280 days). Each man is really 

 older by this period than is usually assumed. When, for example, a 

 child is said to be 9J- years old, he is in reality 10 years old. For 

 individual existence does not begin at the moment of birth, but at the 

 moment of fertilization." (" The Evolution of Man," Prof. Ernst 

 Haeckel, vol. ii. 1883, p. 3.) 



3 " Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature," 1S64, p. 62. 



