An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . and 3, as regards the amphibia and an animal new to science, the early progenitorof implacental mammals, forms guess 4. He cannotkeep the platypus nor the kangaroo in the direct line,but he makes them minister to guess 5, in being thelines to the implacental forefather of lemurs, leavingout the great class of birds. He then jumps to theLemuridge at a bound, leaving all the principal familiesof mammals out of the line altogether.* Here hemakes enormous guess No. 6, about mans early pro-genitor, who had cocked ears, a tail,
An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . and 3, as regards the amphibia and an animal new to science, the early progenitorof implacental mammals, forms guess 4. He cannotkeep the platypus nor the kangaroo in the direct line,but he makes them minister to guess 5, in being thelines to the implacental forefather of lemurs, leavingout the great class of birds. He then jumps to theLemuridge at a bound, leaving all the principal familiesof mammals out of the line altogether.* Here hemakes enormous guess No. 6, about mans early pro-genitor, who had cocked ears, a tail, prehensile feet,both sexes covered with hair and wearing beards. From the lemurs he passes to the Simiadas, andfollows the catarhine group of monkeys, and has tomake another huge guess. No. 7, in order to get intothe line an imaginary creature he calls an ^ ape-likeman, who leads him to the summit of existence— displays more the real ignorance of science, ^ This is all copied from Ha&kel, as I have shown, ante p. 297-9. PUtell. MTCETES TJRSINTTS, The Howler Monkey and its Skull. THOMSONIAN MOSS. 327 or the extreme baldness and improbabilities of hypothesis than a table like this. Every step down the line presents enormous diffi-culties both to the Darwinian and evolutionist, and itis only by blind adherence to an impossible belief, andby straining the Ihuits of scientific discussion to itsutmost, that even a plausible prima facie case can beestablished to such a believers own satisfaction. Meanwhile the strain to which I have alluded isproducing bad results. When grave philosophersassert that man could, by any possible stretch ofimagination, be supposed to have be6n evolved andperfected by natural and sexual selection along line, intelligent thinkers and men of edu-cation and high mental culture shake their heads andbecome disbelievers in natural science founded uponsuch a basis. Mr. Darwin has, however, been quite outdone inspeculat
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