that "to doubt evolution is to doubt science?" And simi- 

 lar assertions have been so frequently made and reiterated 

 by Darwinians that the claim that Darwinism has become 

 a dogma contains, as Professor Morgan notes, more truth 

 than the adherents of that school find pleasant to hear. 



More interesting, however, than Huxley's geological 

 pedigree of the horse is Haeckel's' geological pedigree of 

 man. One who reads Haeckel's Natural History of Creation 

 can hardly escape the impression that the author 

 had actually seen specimens of each of the twenty-one an- 

 cestral forms of which his pedigree of man is composed. 

 Such, however, was not the case. Quatrefages, speaking of 

 this wonderful genealogical tree which Haeckel has drawn 

 up with such scientific accuracy of description, observes: 

 "The first thing to remark is that not one of the creatures 

 exhibited in this pedigree has ever been seen, either living 

 or in fossil. Their existence is based entirely upon theory." 

 (Les Emules de Darwin, ii. p. 76). "Man's pedigree as 

 drawn up by Haeckel," says the distinguished savant, Du 

 Bois-Reymond," is worth about as much as is that of Ho- 

 mer's heroes for critical historians." 



In constructing his genealogies Haeckel has frequent 

 recourse to his celebrated "-Law of Biogenesis." The "Law 

 of Biogenesis" which is the dignified title Haeckel has given 

 to the discredited recapitulation theory, asserts that the 

 embryological development of the individual (ontogeny), is 

 a brief recapitulation, a summing up, of the stages through 

 which the species passed in the course of its evolution in 

 the geologic past, (phylogeny). Ontogeny is a brief reca- 



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