d to which leads is the same for all, and that
end is Union with God.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 2: Haeckel is correct enough in his surmise that Lemuria was
the cradle of the human race as it now exists, but it was not out of
Anthropoid apes that mankind developed. A reference will be made later
on to the position in nature which the Anthropoid apes really occupy.]
[Footnote 3: Ernst Haeckel's "Hist. of Creation," 2nd ed., 1876, Vol.
1., pp. 360-62.]
[Footnote 4: Alfred Russell Wallace's "The Geographical Distribution
of Animals--with a study of the relations of living and extinct Faunas
as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's Surface." London:
Macmillan & Co., 1876. Vol. 1., pp. 76-7.]
[Footnote 5: Ceylon and South India, it is true, have been bounded on
the north by a considerable extent of sea, but that was at a much
earlier date than the Tertiary period.]
[Footnote 6: Wallace's "Geographical Distribution, etc." Vol. 1., pp.
328-9.]
[Footnote 7: Wallace's "Geographical Distribution, etc.," Vol. ii., p.
155.]
[Footnote 8: H. F. Blandford "On the age and correlations of the
Plant-bearing series of India and the former existence of an
Indo-Oceanic Continent," see Quarterly Journal of the Geological
Society, Vol. xxxi., 1875, pp. 534-540.]
[Footnote 9: A reference to the maps will show that Mr. Blandford's
estimate of date is the more correct of the two.]
[Footnote 10: Parts of the continent of course endured, but the
dismemberment of Lemuria is said to have taken place before the
beginning of the Eocene Age.]
[Footnote 11: Vol ii., pp. 325-6.]
[Footnote 12: Dr. G. Hartlaub "On the Avifauna of Madagascar and the
Mascarene Islands," see "The Ibis," a Quarterly Journal of
Ornithology. Fourth Series, Vol. i., 1877, p. 334.]
[Footnote 13: Ernst Haeckel's "History of Creation," Vol. ii., pp.
22-56.]
[Footnote 14: Ernst Haeckel's "History of Creation," Vol. ii., pp.
226-7.]
[Footnote 15: For a further account of the permanent atoms on all the
planes, and the potentialities contained in them with reference to the
processes of death and re-birth, see "Man's Place in Universe." pp.
76-80.]
[Footnote 16: The "Standard," 8th Jan., 1904.]
[Footnote 17: Ernst Haeckel's "The History of Creation," 2nd ed., Vol.
i., pp. 193-8.]
[Footnote 18: "The Secret Doctrine," Vol. ii., p. 197.]
[Footnote 19: Vol. ii., pp. 683 and 689.]
[Footnote 20: It must, however, be noted that the Chinese _peop
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