cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a 
beginning eiullc.ss forms most beautiful and most wonderful have 
been, and are being evolved.” If in tracing out the plan of the 
Creation it is ultimately demonstrated that all forms of life have 
sprung from one original speck of life, surely our notions of its 
grandeur cannot bo less than if wo picture many distinct acts of 
creation at many different iieriods ; the series of developments that 
has resnlted is scarcely more wonderful than that which every day 
arises from the earliest stages of each form of plant or animal 
around u.s. I ho germ of animal life may have been imparted in 
the beginning, and caVried on consecutively even to man; and 
while lie po.sscsscs in varying degrees, according to the individual 
suurces of inheritance and association, much that pertains to the 
purely animal creation, the germ of intellectual life— of intellectual 
enjoyment, and I may add of religious emotion, — that distinctly 
marks him ofl from the rest of the animal creation, may, and so far as 
our sources of information go, must have been directly imparted to 
him, when his structuitil and perishable organization had (it may 
be inferred) been suniciently dcvelopeil from the lower types of 
animal life.*' 
And I may close these remarks by observing, that whatsoever 
may happen in the provinces of anatomy and physiology', as they 
affect our structural organization, intellectually and spiritually the 
history of mankind, as exemplified in this memoir, is a continual 
protest against the doctrine of the “ survival of the fittest.” 
It may be mentioned that as yet “ there is a complete absence of any 
fossil type of a lower stage in the development of man” (Virchow). See 
also Dawkins’ ‘ Early Man in Britain.’ 
NotjJ.— TA e accompanying Portrait of Dr. S. P. Woodward is an 
autotype by Messrs. Sawyer if liirdy enlarged from a photograph 
taken in 1850 (wt. 35^. 
