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place of spinal vertebrae — connects fishes and mollusks; 

 the amphibians connect fishes and mammals ; the Archaeop- 

 teryx connects birds and reptiles; the kangaroo connects 

 egg-layers and milk-givers ; but between man and the ape 

 there is no living link. Nor can there be if Evolution is 

 true ; yet it is not less certain that he has been evolved 

 from a lower animal form than that these other steps in 

 biological development have taken place. 



Professor Wilson, of Edinburgh, saj^s : " There can be no 

 Evolution for one group, and special creation for another. 

 There can be no Evolution for the lower races, and creation 

 for the higher forms of animal life, or for man himself. 

 Uniformity and sequence exist wholly, or not at all." Prof. 

 Huxley also declares, " If one series of species has come 

 into existence by the operation of natural causes, it seems 

 folly to deny that all may have arisen in the same way." 



It has been truly said, "Of special creation the rocks 

 tell no tale." Nor do the present living forms which roam 

 beneath " this brave o'erhanging firmament," while all the 

 fossil dead, and all living creatures, give out some hint or 

 indication of the things they were, and of the evolutionary 

 process through which they have reached their present 

 •estate. 



PROOFS FROM ARTIFICIAL BREEDING. 



It is well known that nearly all domestic animals, food- 

 plants, fruits, and flowers have been greatly improved by 

 man's endeavor to produce higher and better forms. His 

 success has been phenomenal in modifying size, form, color, 

 speed, strength, and beauty. If such marvelous results may 

 be achieved in one individual's lifetime by accelerating the 

 Law of Selection, what wonders might we not expect Nature 

 to perform in the ages gone by ? 



The wild species have been modified by Natural Selection 

 during countless ages. In a degree man can repeat and 

 aug]nent this developmental process in his own brief life ; 

 nay, he can almost witness an entire change of species. 

 Individual inheritance is from all the preceding race, but 

 strongest from the immediate parent. Heredity is cumu- 

 lative, and tends toward fixity and stability, until finally 

 the opposite tendency to reversion is overcome. Professor 

 LeConte says : " During the brief history of man, races of 

 the different domestic animals and plants have been found, 

 differing so greatly from each other that if discovered in a 



