THE ORIGIN OF MAN 95 



candle and would only make its author appear as 

 a ridiculous and incompatible fool. Have we 

 not seen how inanimate inorganic matter came to 

 life at the beginning of the Paleozoic era in the 

 form of trilobites ? Were these trilobites the only 

 animals that came into existence at that time? 

 Of course not! Beside the trilobites there were 

 numerous other shelled animals. Then the ques- 

 tion arises, were these organisms that were 

 formed from this dead matter similar? Yes, in 

 this respect that all the animals at that time were 

 of one class, or in other words, they were all 

 shelled animals, but, there were different kinds 

 of shelled animals, such as trilobites, brachiopods, 

 gastropods and cephalopods. It therefore stands 

 to reason that these organisms that arose from 

 this dead matter were similar in that they all 

 formed shelled animals, but that they differed in 

 that they formed different species of shelled ani- 

 mals. If the kind reader agrees with me thus 

 far, we have then progressed splendidly. Now 



