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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  would 
  it 
  diminish 
  that 
  wonder, 
  but 
  rather 
  

   enhance 
  it 
  to 
  an 
  infinite 
  degree, 
  that 
  Organ- 
  

   isms 
  should 
  be 
  gifted 
  with 
  the 
  still 
  more 
  

   wonderful 
  power 
  of 
  developing 
  Forms 
  of 
  Life 
  

   other 
  and 
  higher 
  than 
  their 
  own. 
  So 
  far, 
  

   therefore, 
  as 
  belief 
  in 
  a 
  Personal 
  Creator 
  is 
  

   concerned, 
  the 
  difficulties 
  in 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  

   accepting 
  this 
  hypothesis 
  are 
  not 
  theological. 
  

   The 
  difficulties 
  are 
  scientific. 
  The 
  first 
  funda- 
  

   mental 
  difficulty 
  is 
  simply 
  this,— 
  that 
  all 
  the 
  

   theories 
  of 
  Development 
  ascribe 
  to 
  known 
  

   causes 
  unknown 
  effects 
  — 
  unknown 
  as 
  regards 
  

   the 
  times 
  in 
  which 
  we 
  now 
  live, 
  and 
  unknown 
  

   so 
  far 
  as 
  has 
  hitherto 
  been 
  ascertained 
  

   in 
  all 
  the 
  past 
  times 
  of 
  which 
  there 
  is 
  any 
  

   record. 
  It 
  is 
  true 
  that 
  this 
  record 
  — 
  the 
  geo- 
  

   logical 
  record 
  — 
  is 
  imperfect. 
  But, 
  as 
  Sir 
  

  

  