APPENDIX. 



Analogy not Identity) see note to page 24. 



SINCE this note was written, the Author of the " Ves- 

 tiges of the Natural History of Creation " has published 

 his " Explanations," as a sequel to the former work, in 

 which he states, that he never intended to aver that the 

 embryotic condition of the mammal is to be regarded as 

 identical with the permanent state of the Monad ; and 

 declares that he simply meant to express the resemblance, 

 or analogy, which the mammal bears, in the various 

 stages of its development, to certain inferior types of 

 animal organisation. " Perhaps," he observes, " no part 

 of the arguments for the development theory has been 

 more misapprehended, or misrepresented, than this. It 

 is continually said, that the embryo, at any of its parti- 

 cular stages, is not in reality the animal represented by 



