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42 UNEXPLAINED ORIGINS. 
milk from its mother stumbled on the capacity of giving 
what was never given it, the breast will stand, against all 
dreams of development, companion-barrier to the back- 
bone. Nor is there an animal that can be regarded as a 
connecting link between these two master groups. 
The “theistic”? evolutionist, who believes that God at 
various times “helped out” the forces residing in matter, 
by creating something new, is inclined to say that at each 
of these points,—the origin of the first sentient animal, 
the origin of the first vertebrate, and of the first mammal, 
—God by his omnipotence caused a new type to originate. 
Aside from the fact that “forces resident in matter,” the 
basic idea of the evolutionistic theory, here begins to be- 
come somewhat faint as a background even for a “the- 
istic’ conception of development, it is evident that we 
have already reached a point far down the scale of or- 
ganic evolution in which the admission must be made that 
no possible working of forces within matter can account 
for the change. Again we say, if we already admit that 
the various great types of animal life could not origi- 
nate without a special creative act of God, then why 
should we not accept the record of Genesis which says 
that the various species of plants and the various species 
of animals were created, each a separate species, in the 
beginning? Once admit special creative acts, and there 
is no longer any need for a hypothesis of evolution. 
Man. 
The difficulty which stands in the way of accepting, 
on purely scientific grounds, the descent of man from a 
brute ancestor, is, first of all a biological (physiological) 
difficulty. Among all the mammalia (to accept the classi- 
fication of man with that group), man alone has a perfect 
brain. By this we mean the physiologically and structur- 
ally perfect brain. It is present even in the lowest man 
