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one of his species, found in a perfect state, on all fours, 

 *' tetragonos aneu psogou" then another, teres atque rotundus, and 

 then the others, with their long names, each and all of them 

 come forth per saltum from the other, but not one does he tell 

 us a single word of discovered in any intermediate grade, or 

 with one single part or portion of it otherwise than complete. 



Not one such does he, or can he, tell us of ; no, not one in all 

 those formations he describes as of " enormous depth ;" no, not 

 a single one in any transition state whatever from another, in all 

 those aeons of inconceivable duration he is obliged to invent to 

 build his theory on, but in which Astronomers, who have a basis 

 of fact to go on, tell us it was absolutely impossible for life of 

 any sort to exist on the earth. 



No, not one in any such state, " ut abortivus olim Sityphus" 

 not one in the act of attempting " ludere par impar" not one 

 " three-cornered constituent " part of the full representative of 

 a species. 



What, then, is the natural, the necessary inference ? 



Surely this: that these new discoveries of fossil species, 

 written, indeed, indelibly by the hand of nature on many a page 

 of the volumes of geology of vast thickness, are merely some of 

 the " missing links " in the long chain of nature which has 

 always heretofore been believed in by naturalists, who have 

 built rather on facts than on theories. 



I have made the Evolutionists, as above, a present of an 

 argument, and now I will do still more, and give them a fact , 

 indeed a series of facts, as valuable as anything they have yet 

 brought to bear on their theory. 



I have just noticed, since writing the above, the following- 

 account of most important discoveries made by Dr. Schliemann 

 in his excavations at Mycenee. They evidently are reliques of 

 the " Golden Age," and beyond all reasonable doubt confirm the 

 views of the Evolutionists in a most remarkable manner. 



Here are some of them 4t A cow-head" (no body) "with 

 long horns." "A stag which appears to move with great 

 velocity, although its head is turned backwards." This, no 

 doubt, Mr. Huxley will consider to be a good specimen of his 



