HOMOLOGIES OF STRUCTURE. II 



can be supported by the concession of this postulate ; 

 for as Man's history could have begun only at the 

 time of his first appearance on the earth, it is im- 

 material whether the period of his existence thereon 

 be reckoned by thousands or by millions of years. 

 The scientific question of his origin would remain 

 the same. But Evolutionists, in their claim of a very 

 high antiquity for the human race, mix up this ques- 

 tion of the antiquity of Man as Man with the other 

 and altogether different question, viz. that of the 

 whole time occupied in the assumed series of evolu- 

 tions, from a protogen to an asciclian mollusk, and 

 from an ascidian mollusk up to a human body. 



Into the composition of animal bodies certain 

 structures and organs enter as fundamental materials ; 

 but in accordance with the particular nature of the 

 different kinds of animals, they are variously modi- 

 fied, as regards both the degree and character of 

 their development. 



Of the homologous, or similar fundamental 

 materials, for example, which compose our arms and 

 hands, the fore legs and feet of quadrupeds are formed, 

 the wings of bats, the flappers of seals, the paddles 

 of whales, the pectoral fins of fishes, &c. By a some- 

 what different modification of the same materials 

 also, the wings of birds are constructed. 



According to Mr. Darwin this fundamentally 

 similar composition of the human arm and hand, 

 the bat's wing, the whale's paddle, &c., is utterly 



