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Changes of Plants, and Animals. 
object is, entirely, to recommend useful practice. I hold 
no opinions contrary to those generally received, as to 
causes of renovation, or changes, of vegetable, or other 
productions. As to changes of locality, or substitution, 
of animals in a state of nature, I never conceived any 
other mode of supplying the places of those which had 
been destroyed, or had migrated, than that of other ani- 
mals roaming, from other quarters, to fill the vacant 
haunts. If any objectionable opinions are held by others 
on these subjects, let them be responsible for their cor- 
rectness, or futility. There is, certainly, something unac- 
countable, to persons of common observation, in the 
facts, both as to timber, plants, and animals; and, for this 
reason, they were, at first, denied. It is only to preserve 
the practical force of them from being lost in contro- 
versy about causes, that I have troubled the society. 
If I had considered the case merely personal, I should 
not have deemed it of sufficient importance to notice.. 
Yet IL am charged by some Furnisher, in the employ of 
the Review-Maker (who, cursorily and acetosely, glides 
through our first volume) with “‘impiety”’ and ‘‘unphilo- 
sophical absurdity ;”’ and sentiments are attributed to 
me, which I never held ;—zo wit,—that ‘‘new and spon- 
taneous productions are brought into existence, by @ 
new order of things.’ If this scribe means an ‘‘order’’ not 
warranted by Scripture, and the opinions of wise and 
good men; I acknowledge, or believe in, no such new 
or old, ‘‘ order of things.” 
The arrogance and fastidious prejudices of many of 
‘the tyro writers of articles in British periodical publi. 
