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de novo of animal life. But no such fact as this 

 did it suit our reviewer to state. 



" Carnivora," he proceeds to say, " are as old 

 as pachyderms. As far, at least, as we have anv 

 evidence bearing on the question, and bimana 

 (monkeys) are found in this division — thus con- 

 tradicting and stultifying the upper end of our 

 author's grand creative scale." There is here, in 

 reality, no stultification except in the critic's own 

 mind. It was not my scale which he refers to, 

 but Dr. Fletcher's ; adopted into my book, not as 

 a plan of the actual process of development, but 

 as a general indication of the comparative organi- 

 zation of the animal orders. I do not consider 

 the assumed contemporaneousness of the carni- 

 vora and monkeys (which the reviewer erroneous! v 

 calls bimana) as at all contradictory of a true 

 development theory, for I regard them all as 

 distinct lines of development, which might well 

 advance to a certain stage, (namely, that of the 

 terrestrial mammal) about the same time. I am 

 not, however, entitled to blame the reviewer for 

 this objection, as the idea of a development in a 

 plurality of lines must be new to him. 



"As we ascend," he says, "towards the middh 

 divisions of the [tertiary] series, there is a devc 



