2904 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 
ally known, and formed the foundation of all subsequent 
investigations of the history of individual development, 
The study of ontogenesis now received a great stimulus, and 
soon there appeared the classical investigations of the two 
friends, Christian Pander (1817) and Carl Ernst Bar (1819). 
Bir, in his remarkable “ Entwickelungsgeschichte der 
Thiere,” 2° worked out the ontogeny of vertebrate ani- 
mals in all its important facts. He carried out a series of 
such excellent observations, and illustrated them by such 
profound ‘philosophical reflections, that his work became 
the foundation for a thorough understanding of this im- 
portant group of animals, to which, of course, man also 
belongs. The facts of embryology alone would be sufii- 
cient to solve the question of man’s position in nature, which 
is the highest’ of all problems. Look attentively at and 
compare the eight figures which are represented on the ad- 
joining Plates II. and III, and it will be seen that the 
philosophical importance of embryology cannot be too 
highly estimated. 
We may well ask, What do our so-called “ educated” 
circles, who think so much of the high civilization of the 
19th century, know of these most important biological facts, 
of these indispensable foundations for understanding their 
own organism? How much do our speculative philosophers 
and theologians know about them, who fancy they can arrive 
at an understanding of the human organism by mere guess- 
work or divine inspiration ?, What indeed do the majority of 
naturalists, not excepting the majority of the so-called “zool- 
ogists ” (including the entomologists !), know about them ? 
The answer to this question tells much to the shame of 
the persons above indicated, and we must confess, willingly 
