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Globigerina, and other comparatively simple Forami* 

 nifers of the modern seas, it may have taken as long, 

 probably much longer, to develop Eozoon from such 

 simple forms in antecedent periods. Time fails for 

 such a process. Again, the deep sea has been the 

 abode of Foraminifers from the first. In this deep 

 sea they have continued to live without improvement, 

 and with 'little material change. How little likely is 

 it that in less congenial abodes they could have im- 

 proved into higher grades of being ; especially since 

 we know that the result in actual fact of any such 

 struggle for existence is merely the production of 

 depauperated Foraminifers? Further, there is no 

 link of connection known to us between Eozoon and 

 any of the animals of the succeeding Primordial, which 

 are nearly all essentially new types, vastly more 

 different from Eozoon than it is from many modern 

 creatures. Any such connection is altogether imagin- 

 ary and unsupported by proof. The laws of creation 

 actually illustrated by this primeval animal are only 

 these : First, that there has been a progress in 

 creation from few, low, and generalised types of life 

 to more numerous, higher, and more specialised types; 

 and secondly, that every type, low or high, was in- 

 troduced at first in its best and highest form, and was, 

 as a type, subject to degeneracy, and to partial or 

 total replacement by higher types subsequently in- 

 troduced. I do not mean that we could learn all this 

 from Eozoon alone; but that, rightly considered, it 

 illustrates these laws, which we gather from the 



