all organic beings, from a common stock.
Of all the races of animals, the anthropoid apes are nearest man. Their
divergence from the same stock must be comparatively recent. Man is the
nomadic, the apes the arboreal, branch of the same great family.

Evolution does not teach that all or any living forms are tending
towards humanity. It does not teach, as in Bishop Wilberforce's
burlesque, "that every favorable variety of the turnip is tending to
become man." It is not true that evolutionists expect to find, as Dr.
Seelye has affirmed, "the growth of the highest alga into a zooephyte, a
phenomenon for which sharp eyes have sought, and which is not only
natural but inevitable on the Darwinian hypothesis, and whose discovery
would make the fame of any observer."

It is no wonder that a clear thinker should have rejected "the Darwinian
hypothesis," when stated in such terms as this. The line of junction in
evolution is always at the bottom. It is the lowest mammals which
approach the lowest reptiles. It is the lower types of plants which
approach the lower types of animals. It would be the lowest alga, to use
Dr. Seelye's illustration, which would be transmutable into the lowest
zooephyte. It is the unspecialized, undifferentiated type from which
branches diverge in different ways. Humanity is not the "goal of
evolution," not even that of human evolution. There will be no second
"creation of man," except from man's own loins. There will not be a
second Anglo-Saxon race, unless it has the old Anglo-Saxon blood in its
veins.

Adaptation by divergence--for the most part by slow stages--is the
movement of evolution. While occasional leaps or sudden changes occur in
the process, they are by no means the rule. In most cases of "saltatory
evolution," the suddenness is in appearance only. It comes from our
inability to trace the intermediate stages. When an epoch-making
character is acquired, as the wings of a bird or the brain of man, the
process of readjustment of other characters goes on with greatly
increased rapidity. But this rapidity of evolution is along the same
lines as the slower processes. Radical changes from generation to
generation never occur. We do not expect to find birds arising from a
"flying-fish in the air, whose scales are disporting into feathers." A
flying-fish is no more of the nature of a bird than any other fish is. A
cow will never give birth to a horse, nor a horse to a cow. The slow
operation of ex