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their own coin. You nust note that if you go on teasing even an ant for about a million years continually, it will begin to treasure up its hurts and hatreds against you in the end. It is a good thing in reality that ants do not live so long, else it will go very hard with man. No doubt, man, too, does not live for anything like a million years ; but we know that he has been in existence for hundreds of millions of years, so that there is no wonder if he has learnt to store up his sufferings as described above.
The eleventh wonder is the production of the mammiterous from the oviparous stock. Does it seem hard that the mainmals should develop their young ones inside a womb and should also have a double or multi-breasted milk flagon to feed them with ? How else could the change be effected, good sir, unless all these wonderful changes occurred internally in the living organisin? It may be that the simultaneous growth of so many internal organs and developinents of inner variations strikes you as wonderful : but the man of wisdom has learnt to curb his incredulity on such matters. If evolution is right then all our other surmises must be right too, though we may not be able to explain them to your or even our own satisfaction.
The above are some of the great wonders of the theory of evolution which we set out to trace. Not the least interesting part of this business of evolution is the way in which the
surroundings and environments' have brought about the most amazing results within a few inches of space-notice the close proximity of the mouth, the nose, the eyes and the ears. That' surroundings and environments in the region of the tongue should give rise to tastes, about half an inch above it, to smells; a very little higher up to sight, and just a couple of inches or so froin the eyes to hearing, is the wonder of all wonders itself ! I am lost in admiration of the wonderworking Nature when I think that the bees and wasps should have eyes and the ants not. For clearly it would have been
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