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from the Palaeozoic period to the present time," and states 

 his conviction that " the present state of scientific evidence, 

 instead of sanctioning the idea that the descendants of the 

 primitive type or types of Foraminifera can ever rise to 

 any higher grade, justifies the anti- Darwinian inference, 

 that however widely they diverge from each other and from 

 their originals, they still remain Foraminifera" I believe 

 that as I think differently from him, he must be wrong, 

 and I must be right. Q. E. D. 



I believe that an assertion " not proven " is as good as 

 or better than one that is proved. 



I believe that I must admit Dr. Carpenter's assertion as 

 an " absolute matter of fact ; " but for all that, as it does 

 not suit my theory, I must hold that " as we do not know 

 under what forms, or how, life originated in this world, it 

 would be rash to assert that even such lowly endowed 

 animals as the Foraminifera, with their beautiful shells, as 

 figured by Dr. Carpenter, have not in any degree advanced 

 in organization ! " 



I believe, therefore, that we can thus " partly recall " 

 the former condition of our early progenitors ; though even 

 that "partly" is "in imagination!" Thus too, we can 

 " approximately place them in their proper position " (" in 



