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of language If, therefore, the science of 



language establishes a frontier between man and the 

 brute which can never le removed, it would seem to 

 possess peculiar claims on the attention of all who 

 consider it their duty to enter their manly protest 

 against a revival of the shallow theories of Lord Mon- 

 boddo" (vol. i., p. 15). 



APPENDIX C, PAGE 31. 



Lamarck, Phil. Zoolog., vol. ii., pp. 443, &c. The 

 Rev. John Duns, E.K.S.E., in his Biblical Natural 

 Science, has remarked on Lamarck's theory of a small 

 gelatinous body being transformed into an oak or 

 an ape and an orang-outang, after having been 

 evolved out of a monad, slowly developing itself 

 into the attributes and dignity of man, that "it 

 would be hard to say whether the folly or the 

 blasphemy in this system is greater" (vol. i., p. 545). 



APPENDIX D, PAGE 46. 



As a specimen of the scientific jargon current in 

 the present day, I quote the words of Professor 

 KOLLIKERS on the subject of Agamogenesis, or "Alter- 

 nate Generation," of which he writes as follows, 

 commencing with the usual Darwinian IF : 



" IF a Bipannaria, a Brachialaria, a Pluteus, is com- 

 petent to produce the Echinoderm, which is so widely 

 different from it ; IF a hydroid polype can produce 

 the higher Medusa; IF the Vermiform Trematode 



