126 Permanence and Evolution. 



In one most important part of the animal 

 kingdom, however, a consistent evolutionist 

 will be forced by ontogeny to assume retro- 

 gression where progress has hitherto been 

 assumed. I allude to the anthropoid apes, 

 whose young are much more like man than 

 the adults are afterwards, and we must therefore 

 suppose, unless we give up the idea hitherto 

 maintained by nearly all evolutionists, and 

 which is one of the bulwarks of the develop- 

 ment theory, that the growth of the indi- 

 vidual pictures in miniature the growth of the 

 race, we must suppose that these are de- 

 generated from a human or semi-human con- 

 dition, while the real series of missing links 

 between man and the lower monkeys has been 

 hopelessly lost, which, though a necessary con- 

 sequence of the theory, makes wider still a gap 

 already quite wide enough. 



In addition to the many other considerations 

 which put it into the power of Darwinians to 



