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human type is in the embryonic Une and still goes on toward higher develop- 

 ments. 



The twenty-first stage Haeckel calls Alalus Erecti, or speechless man, {Pithe- 

 canthropus is another name for the same stage). And the twenty-second stage is 

 Homo Sapiens, or true Man in the zoological and anatomical sense — the "carnal 

 man" of the Bible as distinguished from its "spiritual man." 



Of course 1 have had to run hastily over this consecutive chain of the great 

 typical stages of the ascent of life from the moner up to Man, and omit the ample 

 details of fact and reason, and known laws of life which Prof. Haeckel gives at 

 every step to show on what scientific and philosophical data he bases each point or 

 stage in the ascending scale. Every human being born into the world has passed 

 through these successive transformations in his own embryonic development from 

 the moner or primordial ovulum and its conjunctive spermatozoa, up to the per- 

 fected physical form of man. This is a settled truth of embryology, familiar to 

 every cultured physician or physiologist. And whether Prof. Haeckel's localiza- 

 tion of the corresponding stages in zoological evolution and geological time be 

 literally correct or not, it makes a most valuable working hypothesis, around 

 which to gather new facts and discoveries and prove or disprove any particular 

 point in the schedule. 



Then, animal man (the " carnal man" of the Bible) had come into existence 

 by this long line of creational stages and processes ; and each real or supposed 

 change from any one stage up to the next higher one was in no case a greater 

 variance or transmutation, either mentally, functionally or structurally, than are 

 known to occur within human observation. And, as Haeckel well shows, there 

 were constantly branching off lines of brute-life, thus eliminating out of the man- 

 preparing line those grosser elements which produce shells, scales, fins, and armor- 

 plates — pachydermatous skins, horns, hoofs, tusks, hair, wool, feathers, beaks, 

 claws, and the like. All these elements had been diverted, drawn off, eliminated, 

 strained out into diverging streams of animal nature and structure, before a kind 

 of being was produced by this refining process which was sufficiently fine in qual- 

 ity of texture, and sufficiently complete in its coaptiveness of functional capabili- 

 ties both mental and physical, so that God could make it into his own image — 

 could breathe into its nostrils the spirit of life and make it a living or self-con- 

 scious soul. It is an old theological doctrine that Man was potentially in the 

 Creator's mind and purpose from the first; and this Haeckelian schedule shows 

 in a rational and tenable way how all the long slow processes of zoological evolu- 

 tion and geological time steadily worked toward the one grand purpose — the 

 creation of Man as a finite intelligent being, and therefore an image or likeness 

 of the Infinite intelligent Being. 



