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given only as typical stages, and are far from com- 

 plete. In reality, instead of being only a score in 

 number, there were thousands and tens of thousands 

 of transitional forms, intermediate between the first 

 moneron and primitive man. 



I have said that the existence of the first form of 

 life indicated in this genealogical tree is purely imag- 

 inary. So, likewise, are many others. So far as 

 paleontology teaches, fully ten of the twenty-two 

 groups mentioned by Haeckel are unknown as fossils, 

 while a number of the others do not, so far as our 

 present knowledge extends, belong to the periods to 

 which he assigns them. But this matters not. Se 

 non } vero e ben trovato. If the facts required for the 

 support of the theory do not exist, they must be 

 manufactured. And if facts are found which contra- 

 vene the theory which has been elaborated with such 

 care, tant pis pour les faits. The facts must be 

 wrong, because, forsooth, the theory is right. 



something new has arisen a being whose nascent consciousness 

 has gone on increasing in power and definiteness till it has 

 culminated in the higher animals. No verbal explanation or 

 attempt at explanation such as the statement that life is the re- 

 sult of the molecular forces of the protoplasm, or that the whole 

 existing organic universe from amoeba up to man was latent in 

 the fire-mist from which the solar system was developed can 

 afford any mental satisfaction, or help in any way to a solution 

 of the mystery." 



Referring to the origin of man he concludes : " We thus 

 find that the Darwinian theory, even when carried out to its ex- 

 treme logical conclusion, not only does not oppose, but lends a 

 decided support to a belief in the spiritual nature of man. It 

 shows us how a man's body may have been developed from that 

 of a lower animal form under the law of natural selection ; but 

 it also teaches us, that we possess intellectual and moral facul- 

 ties which could not have been so developed, but must have had 

 another origin ; and for this origin we only find an adequate 

 cause in the unseen universe of spirit." 



