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the more simple plants and animals reach deeper down 

 than the less simple. But, in fact, these forms, plant 

 and animal, more simple and less simple, extinct and non- 

 extinct, are mixed together for example, the conifers 

 and cycadaceae with the algae, the crustaceans and brach- 

 iopods and annelids and cephalopods with the sponges 

 and polypes in such a way as to make it more than 

 difficult to believe that the more simple had prece- 

 dence of the less simple in the order of development. 

 Indeed, I do not see why the plants and animals may 

 not represent the spoils of different districts at the same 

 time rather than those of any one district at different 

 times why the plants and animals of different districts 

 should not have differed as they differ now, say in Australia 

 and India, and why, for this reason, the rocks formed 

 from the debris of these districts should not differ in 

 their fossil remains as much as they do in their inorganic 

 constituents, and this all the more as the difference in 

 their inorganic constituents would seem to point con- 

 clusively to difference of district. And, most assuredly, 

 many difficulties will have to be cleared away before it 

 is possible to follow the latest and most uncompromising 

 of the evolutionists, Professor Hackel, in the path along 

 which, by dint of much pushing and leaping, through 

 many intermediate forms, many of them purely ima- 

 ginary, he tries to make his way from the monera to 

 man a path of which the following brief and pithy itine- 

 rary, given by my friend Dr. Elam in a remarkably 

 interesting work just published*, is not a gloss or 

 caricature, as it may seem to be, but a simple abstract 

 of the text Thus : " I. The Monera is the earliest 



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