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are fashioned out of the downward continuation of the 

 walls of the groove ; and from them by and bye. grow 

 out little buds which, by degrees, assume the shape of 

 limbs. Watching the fashioning process stage by stage, 

 one is forcibly reminded of the modeller in clay. Every 

 part, every organ, is at first, as it were, pinched up 

 rudely and sketched out in the rough ; then shaped 

 more accurately ; and only, at last, receives the touches 

 which stamp its final character." 



For a considerable period in the growth of the 

 dog, there is no essential difference in appearance 

 between its growth and that of any of the vertebrate 

 animals, including Man. "Thus," continues Huxley, 

 " the study of development affords a clear test of 

 closeness of structural affinity, and one turns with 

 impatience to inquire what results are yielded by 

 the study of the development of Man. Is he some- 

 thing apart ? Does he originate in a totally different 

 way from Dog, Bird, Frog, and Fish, thus justifying 

 those who assert him to have no place in nature 

 and no real affinity with the lower world of animal 

 life ? Or does he originate in a similar germ, pass 

 through the same slow and gradually progressive 

 modifications, depend on the same contrivances for 

 protection and nutrition, and finally enter the world by 

 the help of the same mechanism? The reply is not 

 doubtful for a moment, and has not been doubted any 

 time these thirty years. Without question, the mode or 

 origin and the early stages of the development of Man are 

 identical with those of the animals immediately below 

 him in the scale : without a doubt, in these respects, he 

 is far nearer the Apes, than the Apes are to the Dog." 



Haeckel describes the development thus : u In the 



