THE EARLY BIOLOGY 



ment as it was evaporated by the sun. Man 

 was like another animal, namely, a fish, in the 

 beginning. 



" The first animals were produced in the 

 moisture, each enclosed in a prickly bark. As 

 they advanced in age, they came out upon the 

 drier part. When the bark broke off, they 

 survived for a short time. 



" Further, he says that originally man was 

 born from animals of another species. His 

 reason is that while other animals quickly find 

 food by themselves, man alone requires a 

 lengthy period of suckling. Hence, had he 

 been originally as he is now, he would never 

 have survived. 



" He declares that at first human beings 

 arose in the inside of fishes, and after having 

 been reared like sharks, and become capable 

 of protecting themselves, they were finally cast 

 ashore and took to land." * 



We may puzzle ourselves and find much or 

 little in these syncopated fragments. They do 

 not disclose the manner of Anaximander's in- 

 vestigations, but represent his conclusions, 

 which were drawn from his study of nature. 

 They stand for his explanations of the visible 

 facts, his accounting for phenomena. This 



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