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of Vertebrates, vol. iii., p. 792, says: — These extinct 
animals differ from each other in a greater degree than do the 
horse, the zebra, and ass, which by Professor Huxley are 
acknowledged as true species/^ 
Again, it has been well said : — 
There is a want of reliable evidence in the case of 
Professor Huxley^s theory of the descent of the horse, 
because : — 
1. There are remains of the horse in the Upper Miocene 
period, which resembles, in nearly every respect, the horse 
which to-day runs wild in Asia and Africa. 
^‘2. There are remains of the hipparion found in the same 
deposit as the horse, viz., in the Upper Miocene. 
Now this proves that the hipparion could not have 
been the ancestor of the horse. For, according to the 
hypothesis of evolution, there must have been many inter- 
mediate stages. 
4. The remains of the anchitherium are only found in the 
Lower Miocene : so that there is a wider gap between it and 
the hipparion than between the latter and the horse.^^ 
It is worth while to mark well the reasoning of the evolu- 
tionist here. According to the theory, the anchitherium ought 
to be the ancestor of the hipparion, and the hipparion the 
ancestor of the horse, which, in both cases, it is difficult to see 
how they could have been. But inasmuch as on the hypothesis 
they ought to have been, therefore the imagination is allowed 
to control the reason, and so what ought to have been must 
have been, notwithstanding any obstacles whatsoever. Enough 
has been said to show that the testimony of the rocks gives 
little, if any, countenance to the doctrine of evolution, and if 
these witnesses do not agree, to what others can we apply ? 
Surely none. 
Having shown that in regard to the organization of the 
lower animals evolution has been found wanting, we will pro- 
ceed to test it in regard to man^s physical nature. 
This is a very important part of the subject, and one on 
which some eminent evolutionists are not agreed. 
Professor Tyndall, in his celebrated Belfast address, when 
speaking on tho subject, says: — Natural selection acts by 
the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifica- 
tions, each profitable to the preserved being.^^ And Mr. 
Wallace, an evolutionist, says : — ^‘^It is a fundamental doctrine 
of evolution, that all changes of form and structure, all 
increase in the size of an organ, or in its complexity, all 
greater specialisation or physiological divisions of labour can 
