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PHOOFS OF EVOLUTION. 
VIII. 
PROOFS FROM RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. 
The proofs of the Evolution theory from the 
existence of Rudimentary Organs are as interest¬ 
ing as convincing. Nature has strewn the life- 
path with dwarfed and dying forms, which testify 
to her marvelous work in moulding mind and 
matter. She never quite hides her tracks, but 
leaves in bone and tissue, in rock and flower, 
memorials of her brooding care. Her earliest 
children were lowly born, and over their natal-bed 
arose the rhythmic murmur of the sea. Rocked 
on its billowed breast, these children grew and 
filled the early waters with their kind, from which 
developed all divergent forms. Throughout this 
upward struggle of elemental life, Heredity, like 
a miser hoarding his bags of gold, has kept brief 
remnants of family traits for ages, letting them 
go only as compelled by the iron grip of that 
“ fierce Spirit of the glass and scythe, Remorseless 
Time.” 
We will note a few of the Rudiments which 
inheritance has still preserved, and let them serve 
