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conception contrary to any doctrine—at least of the 
Church of England? To say that this cannot be 
true ; that species cannot vary, because God, at the 
beginning, created each thing “according to its 
kind,” is really to beg the question ; which is—Does 
the idea of “kind” include variability or not? and 
if so, how much variability? Now, “kind,” or 
“ species,’ as we call it, is defined nowhere in the 
Bible. What right have we to read our own defini- 
tion into the word ?—and that against the certain 
fact, that some “kinds” do vary, and that widely,— 
mankind, for instance, and the animals and plants 
which he domesticates. Surely that latter fact 
aa] be significant, to those who believe, as I do, 
that man was created in the likeness of God. For 
if man has the power, not only of making plants 
and animals vary, but of developing them into forms 
of higher beauty and usefulness than their wild 
ancestors possessed, why should not the God in whose 
image he is made possess the same power? If the 
old theological rule be true,—“ There is nothing 
in man which was not first in God” (sin, of course, 
