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bladder clearly proves his degeneration from a higher development 
of species. Again, the earlier races of the Ana seem to have been 
covered with hair, and even to a comparatively recent date hirsute 
bushes deformed the very faces of our ancestors, spreading wildly 
over their cheeks and chin. But the object of the higher races of 
the Ana, through countless generations, has been to erase all 
vestige of connection with hairy Vertebrata, and they have gradually 
diminished that debasing capillary excrement by the law of sexual 
selection ; the Gyei [women] naturally preferring youth, or the beauty 
of smooth faces. But the degree of the frog in the scale of the 
Vertebrata is shown in this, that he has no hair at all, not even on 
his head. He was born to that hairless perfection which the most 
beautiful Ana, despite the culture of incalculable ages, have not yet 
attained.”—TJd., p. 139. 
“And do no wranglers or philosophers now exist to revive the 
dispute; or do they all recognize the origin of your race in the 
tadpole?” 
“Nay, such disputes,” said Zee, with a lofty smile, “belong to 
the Pah-bodh of the dark ages, and now only serve for the amuse- 
ment of infants. When we know the elements out of which our 
bodies are composed, elements common to the humblest vegetable 
plants, can it signify whether the All-Wise combined those elements 
out of one form more than another, in order to create that in which 
He has placed the capacity to receive the idea of Himself, and all 
the varied grandeurs of intellect to which that idea gives birth? 
The An in reality commenced to exist as an An with the donation 
of that capacity, and, with that capacity, the sense to acknowledge 
that, however through countless ages his race may improve in 
wisdom, it can never combine the elements at its command into 
the form of a tadpole.”—Id., p. 143. 
Seeing that we shall never know whether we are descended from 
Mr. Darwin’s ascidian or more recently from his “ hairy quadruped 
furnished with a tail and pointed ears,” or whether such a being 
may hereafter descend from us, I think the question may be safely 
left open “ for the amusement of infants.” 
Epwarp Newnan. 
Le Troglodyte de Mentone.—This fossil man, so called, was discovered 
by Dr. E. Riviere, who has been lately appointed by the French Government 
to examine and study the palzontology and prehistoric period of Liguria, 
