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should expect, in conformity with our views of the wisdom 
of the Creator, that He would endow his creatures with a 
power of deviating somewhat from the original type ac- 
cording to which He made them.” And mark, domesti- 
cated deviations are misfortunes; all Pigeon fanciers, Cattle 
breeders know that they are accompanied with new, and 
fatal maladies; which leave the domesticated animals 
weaker than the wild species. 
If thus much power be granted; other claim the Pro- 
fessor appears to give up early in his work, as we saw, on 
their first appearance they are “unfortunately already 
very marked in character.” 
There is no sound argument supplying missing links , 
between living creatures and ancestors from which even 
credulity revolts, traceable in his treatise. 
Of the ‘Ungulata’ the Pia is taken first ; the Pig, and 
Peccary, owing to their reduced number of toes, are pro- 
nounced more fleet than their ancestors. 
Four fossil pigs with more foes than, but with éeeth dike 
our pigs, are not concluded to be distinct species, but 
adivect progenitors of our pig, in a line “‘ evident enough to 
those who choose to follow tt.” The Peccary has five named 
progenitors. 
Second, the Hippopotamus, no direct ancestral claim 
made. Third, the Ruminants, noclaim made. Fourth, 
the CAMELS AND THEIR VICAR THE LLAMA of these there 
have been abundant species; the names of two are given; in 
these species certain changes (perhaps differences) advant- 
ageous to the ‘organism’ in the teeth and toes are taken to 
be in a continued line of developement: but these changes 
are well within the genus: who shall say they are wethin 
the species; which alone would be inherited variation. 
To the families of the Derr, Ox, ANTELOPE, AND 
RHINOCEROS, kindred arguments are applied. 
