Evolution and religion (1893) (14593519220)

Identifier: evolutionreligio00dads (find matches)
Title: Evolution and religion
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Dadson, Arthur J
Subjects: Religion and science Evolution
Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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m it; as he progresses differentiation takesplace precisely similar to that which occurs in theembryo of any of the other higher animals—thoseof the fish, the reptile, the bird, and the beast beingexactly the same in appearance as mans, as it passesthrough those stages. At last it takes on the char-acteristic features of the mammal, and is finallycompleted in the human form. To quote ProfessorRomanes again :— Now, if the theory of Evolution is true, what should we expectto happen when those germ-cells are fertilized, and so enter upontheir severally distinct processes of development ? Assuredly weshould expect to find that the higher organisms pass through thesame phases of development as the lower organisms, up to thetime when their higher characters begin to become apparent. Ifin the life-history of species these higher characters were gainedby gradual improvement upon lower characters, and if the develop-ment of the higher individual is now a general recapitulation of Plate II.
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