EVOLUTION OF THE ATYPICAL FISH 203 



or variation within a given Continuity-type ; and each 

 new form of Continuity which evolved suddenly in the 

 past has remained arrested to produce its appropriate 

 species, with the exception of such representatives as were 

 destined to carry on the main road of Evolution through 

 the further multiplication of Continuity. 



The foregoing conjectures are very superficial, but the 

 intention has simply been to outline the Evolution of living 

 Continuity ; to make clear the fundamental principles of 

 Evolution, and to show how there must be " gaps " in the 

 evolutionary record. 



