96 THE ORIGIN OF MAN 



to come back to our former assertion, which was 

 namely, that at the close of the Cenozoic era, life 

 again manifested itself, in that dead matter came 

 to life in the form of small dwarfs. Does this as- 

 sumption then appear incredulous when we have 

 seen how at the beginning of the Paleozoic era, 

 dead matter likewise came to life, not in the form 

 of dwarfs but in the form of shelled animals. 

 I then continued to state that these dwarfs were 

 not of the same color throughout the earth, that 

 in different parts of the land they were of a dif- 

 ferent color. Does this assumption then also ap- 

 pear incredible when we have seen that organ- 

 isms that formed shelled animals formed dif- 

 ferent kinds of shelled animals. Do you not 

 agree to that ? Why can we not then assume that 

 organisms formed from inorganic matter, formed 

 dwarfs as organisms formed shelled animals, and 

 that these organisms formed different types, by 

 this I mean different colors, of dwarfs as organ- 

 isms formed different kinds of shelled animals. 



