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Rh the discovery, as Ulysses when he, at last, sighted the island of Ithaca after all his wanderings, and gave vent to his feelings in the words,—

Which we venture to paraphrase, after Moore.

Hail—thou portal of nature! To seek thee we’ need no longer sigh; Darwin, at last, has brought us nigh.

Thus launched on the vast ocean of evolution:

That dark and endless sea! Their thoughts as boundless; And of old notions free. [Apud Byron “The Corsair.”]

They have out-sailed their pilot, and imagine all animal life has been evolved from “primal atoms, or protoplasm.’ Such as Bathybius or Protobathybius.