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proper and specific meaning, it is used to signify 

 essential resemblance, which is wholly inexact. 



In order that the argument of analogy should be 

 valid, the data given should be identical, and should 

 refer to two different classes of beings viewed under 

 the same bearings. When this is the case, the iden- 

 tical data given may be regarded as premises, from 

 which conclusions may be drawn applicable to both 

 classes of beings. Until, therefore, Haeckel and his 

 school can demonstrate, that the causes which have 

 operated and the conditions which have prevailed 

 in phylogeny, are identical with those which exist 

 in respect of ontogeny, his argument is inconclusive, 

 if not worthless, and the theories based on his as- 

 sumptions are at best but simple hypotheses and 

 should be so considered. ' 



The suppositions which he continually makes, 

 and the postulates which everywhere abound in 

 his writings, show the looseness of his reasoning and 

 the flimsiness of the structure which he has reared 

 with such a flourish of trumpets, and to which he 

 points with such evident feelings of arrogant exalta- 

 tion. On almost every page of his " Evolution of 

 Man," and his " History of Creation," we find such 

 phrases as " there can be no doubt ;" " which may 



1 It is not my purpose to minimize the force or plausibility 

 of the argument in favor of Evolution which is based on the 

 teachings of embryology. On the contrary, I am quite willing to 

 accept the argument for what it is worth, and in the earlier part 

 of this work I have endeavored to present it as fairly as possible 

 within a brief compass. The facts of embryology may justify 

 the conclusions which evolutionists draw from them, but so far 

 there is no positive evidence that such is the case. The argu- 

 ment from analogy may, in this particular instance, be warrant- 



