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[Footnote 63: They are still credited to Sterne, though with admitted doubt, in Hirsching . It would seem from a letter of Hamann’s that Germany also thrust another work upon Sterne. The letter is directed to Herder: “Ich habe die nichtswürdige Grille gehabt einen unförmlichen Auszug einer englischen Apologie des Rousseau, die den Sterne zum Verfasser haben soll, in die Königsberger Zeitung einflicken zu lassen.” See Hamann’s Schriften, Roth’s edition, III, p.
[Footnote 44: Lebensbild II (I, 2), p. 256; also in Hamann’s Schriften, ed. by Roth. Berlin, 1822, III, p.
Hamann’s main theme is that Darwinism overlooks the fact that “there cannot have been an origin of higher types from types already finished.” For this “unfortunate and unsupported assumption” there are no proofs in embryology, palæontology, or anatomy.
According to Hamann’s hypothesis we must think of evolution as going on, so to speak, not about the top but about the bottom. The phyla or groups of forms are great trunks bearing many branches and twigs, but not giving rise to one another. Still less do the little side branches of one trunk bear the whole great trunk of another animal or plant phylum.
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