Daksha typifies the early Third Race, holy and pure, as yet devoid of an Individual Ego, and possessing passive capacities only. Brahmâ, therefore, commands him to create (in the exoteric texts); when, obeying the command, he made “inferior and superior” (Avara and Vara) progeny (Putra), bipeds and quadrupeds; and by his will, gave birth to females, to the Gods, the Daityas (Giants of the Fourth Race), the snake-gods, animals, cattle and the Dânavas (Titans and Demon Magicians) and other beings.
From that period forward, living creatures were engendered by sexual intercourse. Before the time of Daksha, they were variously propagated—by the will, by sight, by touch, and by the influence of religious austerities practised by devout sages and holy saints.[415]
And now comes the simply zoölogical teaching.
29. Animals with bones, dragons of the deep, and flying Sarpas[416] were added to the creeping things. They that creep on the ground got wings. They of the long necks in the water became the progenitors of the fowls of the air.
This is a point on which the teachings and modern biological speculation [pg 194] are in perfect accord. The missing links representing this transition process between reptile and bird are apparent to the veriest bigot, especially in the Ornithoscelidæ, Hesperornis, and the Archæopteryx of Vogt.
30. During the Third,[417] the boneless animals grew and changed; they became animals with bones, their Chhâyâs became solid.[418]
Vertebrates, and after that mammalians. Before that the animals were also ethereal proto-organisms, just as man was.
31. The animals separated the first.[419] They began to breed. The two-fold man[420] separated also. He[421] said: “Let us as they; let us unite and make creatures.” They did....
32. And those which had no Spark[422] took huge she-animals unto them. They begat upon them dumb races. Dumb they[423]were themselves. But their tongues untied.[424] The tongues of their progeny remained still. Monsters they bred. A race of crooked red-hair-covered monsters going on all fours.[425] A dumb race, to keep the shame untold.[426]
The fact of former hermaphrodite mammals and the subsequent separation of sexes is now indisputable, even from the standpoint of Biology. As Prof. Oscar Schmidt, an avowed Darwinist, shows: