PROOFS OF EVOLUTION. 
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upward life are the vanishing forms of all the 
past. Each new stage is a birth from the preced¬ 
ing. All is metamorphosis from first to last. 
What can all this mean? In vain we ask the 
advocates of the Creation theory to explain. Like 
Sir John Falstaff, they will give no reasons on 
compulsion. We find in Metamorphosis the 
strongest support to the great law of Evolution, 
modification and adaptation operating everywhere 
on the children of life. 
