The Bible and science (1881) (14804978763)

Identifier: biblescience00brun (find matches)
Title: The Bible and science
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916
Subjects: Religion and science -- 1860-1899 Evolution Natural history
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Fig. 165.—Development of Amphioxus. a. the ovum ; h and c, fissure of the oA-ura withendogenous formation of cells ; c, formation of a spherical cell mass. Inside thisfluid collects so as to form a bladder with cellular wall. This bladder is invertedat one side so as to form a cavity—the intestinal cavity, e represents a furtherstage, and/the fully developed Amphioxus. The letters indicating the differentparts are the same as in fig. 164, ni4 SUCCESSIVE RELATIONSHIPS. I have already mentioned the points of resemblancebetween them, but you see that in the adult conditionthey differ very considerably. Yet as we trace thembackwards, at each step they resemble each othermore and more, until we find that they a.re absolutelyidentical. Nor is this merely the case with low forms of life.It occurs also in the very highest. It was formerlyimagined that every embryo, in its developmentfrom an ovum, passed successively through the dif-ferent types of the animal kingdom, that it was suc-cessi