Darwinism tested by language / by Frederic Bateman, with a preface by Edward Meyrick Goulburn.

  • Frederick Bateman
Date:
1877
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Credit: Darwinism tested by language / by Frederic Bateman, with a preface by Edward Meyrick Goulburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of man, would be incomplete without a fur- ther reference to Professor Haeckel's views. Mr. Darwin, as we have seen, is content with tracing man's descent from an As- cidian Mollusk, and he is also satisfied with deriving all animals and plants from about eight or ten progenitors, whereas, his most valiant disciple. Professor Haeckel, goes much further back, through a com- plete family tree of twenty-two branches, and having reached Mr. Darwin's Ascidian, he carries us seven stages higher up, through sponges, diatoms, worms, and other organisms, till he eventually traces us all to one primordial germ—a Moner, produced by self generation (Archigony) from inorganic matter during the Lauren- tian period. This Moner—ixovrjpr]^—the lowest imagin- able grade of organic individuality, he