46 PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON 



Reduced to its simplest expression, the doctrine of evolution merely 

 states that the animal world as it exists to-day is naturally developed out of 

 the animal world as it existed yesterday, and will in turn develop into an 

 animal world as it shall exist to-morrow. This is the central belief of the 



evolutionist Then at once arises the question. 



Does life remain the same" yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow ? A thousand 

 indubitable facts at once make answer. No ! — Animal Life_ aND Intelli- 

 GENXE, by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, p. 182. 



