IN MODERN SCIENCE. 



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animal kingdom — the highest realization of a plan 

 previously sketched by the Creator in many 

 ruder and humbler forms. It also teaches 

 that it is not so much in the mere bodily 

 organism that we are to look for the distin- 

 guishing characters of humanity as in the high- 

 er rational and moral nature. 



But Haeckel, like other evolutionists of the 

 monistic and agnostic schools, goes far beyond 

 this. The ontogeny, on the evidence of anal- 

 ogy, as already explained, is nothing less than 

 a miniature representation of the phylogeny. 

 Man must in the long ages of geological time 

 have arisen from a monad, just as the individ- 

 ual man has in his life-history arisen from an 

 embryo-cell, and the several stages through 

 which the individual passes must be parallel 

 to those in the history of the race. True, the 

 supposed monad must have been wanting in all 

 the conditions of origin, sexual fertilization, pa- 

 rental influence, and surroundings. There is 

 no perceptible relation of cause and effect, any 

 more than between the rotation of a carriage- 

 wheel and that of the earth on its axis. The 

 analogy might prompt to inquiries as to com- 

 mon laws and similarities of operation, but it 

 proves nothing ^s to causation. 



