Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
the worm, the fish or the reptile. 
The most that can be said is that 
in some respects he is like the 
young of these in various stages. 
Baer says that he can tell the dif¬ 
ference between the embryo of the 
common fowl and the duck on the 
second day. (“ Principles of Biol¬ 
ogy,” p. 1.) Prof. A. Agassiz says: 
“Anything beyond a general par¬ 
allelism is hopeless.” (“The Other 
Side of Evolution,” Alex. Patter¬ 
son, p. 50.) And Prof. J. Arthur 
Thomson, of Edinburgh, says: “Re¬ 
capitulation is due to no dead hands 
of the past, but to physiological 
conditions which we are unable to 
discover.” (“Outline of Zoology,” 
p. 63.) Huxley says: “In practice, 
however, the reconstruction of the 
pedigree of a group from the devel¬ 
opmental history of its existing 
members is fraught with difficulties. 
It is highly probable that the series 
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