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which has existed for millions and millions of years 

 without having undergone any differentiation ? Would 

 '^ he have us believe that the simplest and most struc- 

 tureless Amoeba of the present day can boast of a line 

 of ancestors stretching back to such far-remote periods 

 that in comparison with them the primseval men were 



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preposterously absurd; or, if true, the fact would be 

 laving workei sufficient to overthrow the very first principles of their 

 ishly trust b q^^ Evolution philosophy. Again, may we not see at 

 T than to tht the present day all those minute shades of difference 



by which the primordial fissiparous act of reproduction 

 )st any compt gives place to the more and more specialized forms 



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supply us with these various transitions were 



cT^ or in those continually seething into existence afresh. Instead of 



known by the having to do with a pretty accurate picture of the 



rvellous trans- original process of evolution^ each sectional mosaic of 



than twent) which has been faithfully transmitted for millions of 



, neo-lectei y^2.rs with little or no variation^ we probably stand face 



to face with processes that have been independently 



repeated billions and billions of times — and repeated 



MUg in a more or less similar manner, simply because the 



»vnen ^ processes themselves have always been the results of 



the conjoint action of the same external forces in 

 conflict with similar material properties or tendencies. 

 Like causes should produce like results: so that the 



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' ^ primordial living units of to-day should undergo changes 

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