60 MIRACLE, LAW, EVOLUTION. 
one monotonous series of like producing like, till at last 
another animal made its appearance still in the same line 
of progress ; the side hoofs remained, but of diminished 
size, while the teeth became more like those of the horse. 
This genus (Protohippus) ran its course, and then an- 
other (Pliohippus) came into existence with greater re- 
semblance to the horse, for it had single hoofs, and teeth 
still more equine. 
Next and last came the horse, the living servant of 
man. 
It is not possible as yet to trace the pedigree of any 
other animal as satisfactorily as this ; there is, however, 
sufficient evidence to induce the pene that there has 
been a similar process in all species. 
The question is how to explain these facts. Scarce any 
one doubts that the first life came direct from the Creator. 
It is in regard to the subsequent populations that biolo- 
gists differ. The fact of there having been such is be- 
yond dispute. Itisas to the manner of the successive 
genera coming into existence that there is question. Only 
two suppositions are conceivable. Hither each species 
was made de novo by the Almighty, or it was born of 
some preceding creature of a different species. The 
former is the older theory, and claims to be in exclusive 
harmony with sacred writ. It teaches that God made, e. 
g., the Orohippus, from earth, air, and water, and gave 
it life; that later, from more of the same raw materials, 
he made the Mesohippus; and yet later, from more 
earth, air and water, he made the Miohippus; that, 
after another long interval, once more from earth, air, 
and water, God made the Protohippus, and so on down 
to the present horse. There was a succession of creations, 
but no genetic relation between them. 
The other theory also holds to the belief in a Creator. 
It, however, teaches that only the first kinds of plants 
and animals were made direct from inorganic material. 
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