CHAPTER II 



THE SCAFFOLDING LEFT IN THE BODY 



' I ^HE spectacle which we have just witnessed 

 ■^ is invisible, and therefore more or less un- 

 impressive, except to the man of science. Embry- 

 ology works in the dark. Requiring not only the 

 microscope, but the comparative knowledge of 

 intricate and inaccessible forms of life, its all but 

 final contribution to the theory of Evolution carries 

 no adequate conviction to the general mind. We 

 must therefore follow the fortunes of the Body 

 further into the open day. If the Embryo in 

 every changing feature of its growth contains some 

 reminiscence of an animal ancestry, the succeed- 

 ing stages of its development may be trusted to 

 carry on the proof. And though here the evi- 

 dence is neither so beautiful nor so exact, we 

 shall find that there is in the adult frame, and 



even in the very life and movement of the new- 



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