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crowd's ignoble strife, they kept the noiseless tenor of their 

 way." 



As Mr. Wallace remarks: "AVe iind the continental 

 islands inhabited by animal life more or less similar to 

 that of the mainland, according to the time and distance of 

 the separation." All these facts are in perfect harmony 

 with the theory of Evolution, and utterly at variance with 

 any other hypothesis whatsoever. From the first dawning 

 of life to the present moment, varieties of animal-forms 

 and organs have developed most rapidly under the spurring 

 whip of the fiercest warfare — a Avarf are not only of life 

 against life, but of Nature against all. Heat and cold, 

 dryness and moisture, wind and tide, lightning and storm, 

 flood and fire, mountain and chasm, pestilence and famine, 

 mist and darkness, one and all have stood like frowning 

 giants in the path of living forms. lUit in spite of all these 

 barriers, in spite of inter-racial strife of beak and claw, of 

 tooth and venom, the residuary column has pushed onward 

 and upward, readjusting itself to ever changing conditions. 

 Indeed, this very opposition and antagonism have been 

 the jDotent factors in the ascent of animal life. Australia 

 has not kept pace with the continents because the warfare 

 there has been little more than a skirmish. The continents 

 have advanced under the great law of v) it/ Jit. The weak, 

 the indolent, and the stupid, were swe})t from among the 

 living; the strong, the resolute, and cunning, remained 

 victors. Evolution, and Evolution only, explains the facts 

 of Geographical Distribution. 



PKOOFS FKOM DISCOVERED LINKS. 



Where are your "Missing Links"? cried the critics of 

 Evolution after their recovery from the first shock of Mr. 

 Darwin's " Origin of Species " in 1859, and again after the 

 publication of his later work " The Descent of Man." From 

 theological quarters, after the laugh had subsided, came 

 severe denunciation of the doctrine. It was said that the 

 Evolution hypothesis was both childish and dangerous, and 

 that Darwin himself Avas the Munchausen of his time. 

 Even to-day, thirty years from the time of that remarkable 

 publication, the masses — those innocent of any learning on 

 the subject, and those Avho study fortified to disbelieve — 

 alike cry out in chorus, "Show us the 'Missing links.'" 

 This outcry has narrowed itself down to the demand for 



