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the highest intellect. If God did not create all creatures and endow them. 
with the law of their being, why should He have cared for them as we 
perceive throughout all nature? He who ascribes nothing to God does 
not answer the question. The questions which our reason inevitably 
asks give him no trouble. He is tempted to deify nature but owns no 
Deity. 
There are, indeed, common necessities to all life, that would go further 
to indicate its unity than the ‘‘rudiments’”’ searched out. All must live 
upon the food that the earth, sea and air supply. All must have power of 
digestion and assimilation, and mostly have hearts, circulations, viscera, 
tissues, nerves and brains. The vertebrates have also flesh and bones. 
Now, in all this, there is a greater basis of brotherhood in all animated. 
nature, than in the few small matters upon which the theory in question is 
built. That life in embryo shall start similarly, is as much to be expected 
as that the digestion, circulation, secretions and excretions should go on 
alike. But whatever be the incipient or embryolic resemblance, the 
mature development is always truthful to the demarcations recognized. 
by the classifications of science. All that have nerves to feel are objects 
of kindness ; but there fraternity ends. 
Now, what are the particular things enumerated that declare our 
ancestors to have been apes? Here is the inventory of them in the 
author’s words: ‘Some few persons have the power of contracting the 
superficial muscles on their scalps ’’ 1 Descent of Man, 19. ‘‘One little 
peculiarity in the external ear:’’ It is ‘‘a little blunt point projecting 
from the inwardly-folded margin or helix,’ p. 21. ‘The nictitating 
membrane, or third eyelid :’ which in man ‘exists, as is admitted by all 
anatomists, as a mere rudiment, called the semilunar fold,’”’ p, 22-3. Of 
the sense of smell in man, Darwin says: ‘“‘No doubt he inherits the 
power in an enfeebled, and so far rudimentary condition, from some 
early progenitor, to whom it was highly serviceable and by whom it was 
continually used,’ p. 23. ‘*Man differs conspicuously from all the other 
Primates in being almost naked: but a few short straggling hairs are 
found over the greater part of the body in the male sex, and fine down 
on that of the female sex.’’ id “There can be little doubt that 
the hairs thus scattered over the body are the rudiments of the uniform 
hairy coat of the lower animals.’’ p. 24. And he says, ‘‘ we must consider 
the woolly covering of the foetus to be the rudimentary representative of 
the first permanent coat of hair in those mammals which are born hairy.’’ 
p. 25. ‘*It appears as if the posterior molar or wisdom-teeth were tend- 
ing to become rudimentary in the more civilized races of man.’’ p. 20. 
‘* With respect to the alimentary canal, I have met with an account of only 
a single rudiment, namely the vermiform appendage of the caecum.’’ p- 
26. The foramen near the lower end of the humerus is said to be found 
in one per cent. of modern human skeletons, but much oftener anciently,. 
‘one chief cause seems to be that ancient races stand somewhat nearer than 
modern races in the long line of descent to their remote animal-like pro- 
genitors,” p. 27-28. ‘*The Os coccya in man, though functionless as @- 
