[197] J. W. Barclay, New Theory of Organic Evolution, p. 90.
[198] Huxley, Lectures and Essays (Popular Edition), pp. 28, seq.
[199] Since Professor Huxley wrote the idea has been completely discarded that these birds occupy such a place as he assigned them. The wing of Hesperornis, for example, is now declared to be an instance of degeneration from one capable of flight. None of these fowls can be considered as the progenitors of any now existing, but all as the descendants of flying ancestors of arboreal habits, whereof no trace has yet been discovered. (See Pycraft's Story of Bird Life, p. 190.)
[200] Philosophical Transactions Royal Society, 1863, p. 36.
[201] This point is well handled by M. Paul Janet, Final Causes, 2nd English Edition, p. 245.
[202] Descent of Man, ii. 156.
[203] Tablet, May 26, 1888, p. 837.
[204] Lessons from Nature, p. 297.
[205] Descent of Man, i. p. 57.
[206] In later editions (e.g. that of 1888, i. 133) the suggestion is put in form of a question: "May not some unusually wise ape-like animal ...?"