he early Pagan mythologies. Their satyrs or forest divinities were
creatures blending the animal with the human. So Anaximander, although an
advocate of the old hypothesis of evolution, was not the originator of the
thought. The old _guess-up_ had its origin in Pagan mythology. The Fauns
of the Roman legend were supposed to be the transition species, or bridge
across the chasm between the brute creation and man--a notion found in
Hawthorne's "Marble Faun." So it is plain that evolution, in Darwin's
sense of the term, does not lie between new discoveries in science and old
dogmas in religion, but it does lie between speculation in science and old
dogmas in paganism--poor science, she carries much that does not belong to
her! Evolution of species from other species is an idea found in heathen
mythology; it is also found in the ancient heathen cosmogonies. The God of
flocks and shepherds among the Greeks was a compound creature having the
horns and feet of a goat and the face of a man. He was, doubtless, as near
an approach to man as Darwin's imaginary link at some imaginary point in
his imaginary evolution.

This question is not one of progressive order in the same species, but a
question relative to one species rising out of another of lower grade, and
especially the development of man from the lower animals. Agassiz says,
"Some have mistaken the action and reaction which exists everywhere in one
and the same species for a _causal_ connection," that is to say, these
influences produced the species, whereas the species must exist before any
such action and reaction can take place. The action of physical
influences, or external surrounding, _or environments_ upon species could
not take place unless the species _first existed_. Action and reaction in
one and the same species already existing, furnishes no evidence upon the
manner in which the species was first brought into existence. Darwin says:
"The creation of organic matter having already taken place, my object is
to show in consequence of what laws, or what demonstrable properties of
organic matter, and of its environments, such states of organic nature as
those with which we are acquainted must have come about." Well, Mr. Darwin
will never get nearer the truth upon this great question than he was when
he marched boldly up to miraculous intervention in order to get his first
unit, or living organism to place at the beginning of his evolutionary
series, unless he comes ba