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I believe that though Professor Salmon has shown that Darwin- 

 ism is a mere scientific imagination, not a scientific fact, never- 

 theless the human species is descended from the semi-human, very 

 inhuman, if you like to say so, and this again from so low an 

 origin as the larva or caterpillar of some sea animal. 



I therefore believe, for all the above satisfactory reasons, that 

 the origin of man is to be derived as follows : 



1. Marine animals, resembling the larvae of existing Asci- 



dians. 



2. Fishes as lowly organised as the Lancelet. 



3. Fishes like the Lepidosirens. 



4. Amphibians. 



5. Reptiles. 



6. Monotremata. 



7. Marsupials. 



8. Placenta! Mammals. 



9. Lemuridae. 



10. Simiadae. 



11. Old World Monkeys. 



12. Man. 



" most lame and impotent conclusion !" 



operator far lower than the brute on which he exercised his fiendish skill, 

 soiling the hands in blood, and grovelling in torture for hours, aye for 

 days together," (The late LORD CARNARVON.) "Who have made a path 

 over the bodies of writhing animals to seats of most questionable honour," 

 (J.F.B., in The Hour.) " Their practice as various as their theories" 

 " Much in the aspect of school-boys playing with weapons of which they 

 understand neither the use nor nature," ( ROYAL COMMISSION.) ' A set of 

 young devils," (DR. HAUGHTON.) " A new horror," (PROFESSOR W. NEWMAN.) 

 " Human brutality taking advantage of the helplessness of dumb animals : 

 cowardly cruelty." (COUNTKSS DE GASPARIN.) "Cruelty in its worst 

 form is the ultimate result of Science." "Cruelty in the garb and 

 pretences of Science." "Now, Science has become the rival of the 

 tortures of the Inquisition, and by increase of learning has learned to 

 torment still more ingeniously." " Ancient Paganism may well put us to 

 shame." " To cut up a living horse, day after day, in order to practise 

 students in dissection, is a crime and abomination hardly less monstrous 

 from his not having an immortal soul." " An inevitable logic would in a 

 couple of generations unteach all tenderness towards human suffering if 

 such horrors are endured and carry us back into greater heartlessness 

 than that of the worst barbarians." " A new oppression." " The scientific 

 Torquemadae of the day." " The inseparable companion of the vilest im- 

 purities and vices to which flesh is heir," (Saturday Review.) 



