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take place. But as the existence of land animals cannot be 
accounted for in any other way, it is to be believed, even 
though it is unsupported by any evidence. 
7. As the invertebrated animals have their main masses of 
nervous matter ventrally disposed, and the vertebrated 
dorsally, by some unaccountable freak of nature the animal 
world was, once at least, “turned upside down.” It is 
difficult to say why this should have taken place, or how it 
was accomplished ; but inasmuch as the doctrine of Kvolution 
requires that it did take place, that is enough,—therefore it 
is to be believed that it did occur. 
8. Every special organ’ in animals sprang into existence, as 
required, by the operation of the mystery of mysteries 
“ natural selection,” and so it came to pass that the oil-glands 
in the water birds were invented by a clever old goose who 
once suffered with rheumatic fever consequent upon repeated 
drenchings. After many failures, she hit upon this plan to 
prevent the mischief in future. 
9. Birds were evolved out of reptiles, scales becoming 
feathers, fins becoming jwings and feet; swim-bladders 
becoming lungs; a heartless creature extemporised a heart ; 
two-chambered hearts became four chambered; and cold 
blood became hot. How, when, where, and why, need not be 
known: suffice that it must have been SO, because evolution 
requires it. 
10. Class Mammalia being evolved out of reptiles or 
birds—it matters not which—it came to pass, by some 
unaccountable act of the mystery of “natural selection,” the 
form of the blood corpuscles were changed from oval to 
spherical, and the blood capillaries enlarged their capacity to 
suit the change. How this was accomplished it matters 
not. ‘The unreasonableness of the whole affair makes it 
the more credible. 
11. In the past, species were not fixed, and so it happened 
that one race of animals gave birth to another quite unlike 
itself; and so by the mystery of Evolution, a marsupialian was 
evolved into a ruminant, a ruminant into a rodent, a rodent 
into one of the quadrumana, and one of the quadrumana into 
one of the bimana. he unreasonableness of this is not to be 
questioned. 
12. Human speech and moral consciousness have been 
evolved as necessity occurred, and although the highest forms 
of the quadrumana have never shown any tendency, during 
the human period, to advance towards a state of civilisation, 
the very fact that they do not should be accepted as a proof 
that at one time they did. True, sucha line of argument is 
illogical ; but, then, if such changes did not take place Evolu- 
