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The Soul-less Soul evolving against, not after, kind 

 As the Life- less Life developed, and the Mind-less ripened 

 Mind, 



In this fine old Atom- Molecule, 



Of the young World's proto-prime I 



Then bow down, Mind, to Matter ; from brain-fibre, Will, 



withdraw ; 

 Fall Man's heart to cell Ascidian, sink Man's hand to 



Monkey's paw ; 



And bend the knee to Protoplast in philosophic awe 

 Both Creator and Created, at once work and source of 

 Law, 



And our Lord be the Atom- Molecule, 

 Of the young World's proto-prime 1 



Punch. 



NOTE K. PAGE 298. 



While these latter sheets are passing through the press, 

 there appears in The World, the paragraph here sub- 

 joined ; a paragraph interesting and important under any 

 circumstances, but under existing circumstances, doubly 

 so. 



"Frank Buckland died on the igth ultimo [*.<?., Dec. 

 1880], working to the last. Two days before (on the 

 1 7th), he finished the preface to his latest book, the 

 Natural History of British Fishes. From early sheets 

 of that preface, I make the following extract, in which 

 the dying man evidently, from the context, not then 

 knowing himself dying makes a declaration of belief 

 which is wholly antagonistic to the theories of Darwin 

 and his school : 



" ' I have another object in writing this book ; it is to 

 endeavour to show the truth of the good old doctrines of 

 the Bridgewater Treatises, which have so ably demon- 



