An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . st indeed have been severe!* Leaving this difficulty and the thousand otherswhich it suggests to be settled by Mr. Darwin and hisfollowers, we are carried on the line from the mar-supials to the lowest of the monkey tribe, the this jump from the lowest to the highest, saveone mammalian form^ Mr. Darwin as one reasonquotes Mr. Huxley, who has written that the groupof Lemuridae present many gradations, leading in-sensibly from the crown and summit of the animalcreation, down to creatures from which there is but astep as it see
An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . st indeed have been severe!* Leaving this difficulty and the thousand otherswhich it suggests to be settled by Mr. Darwin and hisfollowers, we are carried on the line from the mar-supials to the lowest of the monkey tribe, the this jump from the lowest to the highest, saveone mammalian form^ Mr. Darwin as one reasonquotes Mr. Huxley, who has written that the groupof Lemuridae present many gradations, leading in-sensibly from the crown and summit of the animalcreation, down to creatures from which there is but astep as it seems to the lowest, smallest, and leastintelligent of the placental mammalia. But then, thekangaroo, though the lowest of mammals, is not pla-cental; but to get over this difficulty Mr. Darwinmakes a large guess. He says the placental mammalswere descended from the implacental—not from formsclosely allied to the existing marsupials, * but fromtheir early progenitors. So that after all, the kangaroo, * Cf. Genesis of Species, pp. 42, 43. Plate I. Fig. ^^s -<i^.? * - ^.
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