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last two centuries) will continue to increase until 

 it ultimately reaches this limit. 



Although records of the original forms of 

 organisms are preserved in their early stages, 

 yet the later developments must necessarily also 

 react upon the earlier, although this may not, 

 with our present knowledge, be observable in 

 the foetus. As the comparative anatomist can 

 restore the idea of an extinct animal from a 

 mere fragment of a bone, so is it likely that a 

 germ has ab initio sufficient individuality to re- 

 produce, in its appropriate matrix and by a 

 process somewhat analogous to crystalisation, its 

 parent form. 



"We might say much more on the subject of 

 Embryology; but will now conclude with the 

 observation that the whole series of facts which 

 it presents to our observation, though more or 

 less intelligible on the theory of Evolution, are 

 simply inexplicable on that of Special Creation. 



