248 Darwin, and after Darwin. 



faunas, or by reaches of ocean in the case of terrestrial 

 faunas stocking oceanic islands with an enormous 

 profusion of peculiar species all allied to those on the 

 nearest mainlands,yet everywhere avoiding the creation 

 upon them of any amphibian or mammal, except an 

 occasional bat. We are familiar with the doctrine 

 that God is a God who hideth himself; here, however, 

 it seems to me, we should have but a thinly-veiled 

 insinuation, not merely that in his works he is 

 hidden, but that in these works he is untrue. Than 

 which I cannot conceive a stronger condemnation of 

 the theory which it has been my object fairly to 

 represent and dispassionately to criticise. 



