AS APPLIED TO MAN. 



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away. But I venture to think they will nevertheless 

 maintain their ground, and that they can only be 

 met by the discovery of new facts or new laws, of 

 a nature very different from any yet known to us. 

 I can only hope that my treatment of the subject, 

 though necessarily very meagre, has been clear and 

 intelligible ; and that it may prove suggestive, both 

 to the opponents and to the upholders of the theory 

 of Natural Selection. 



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