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which is supposed in the theory to be the destiny of every living or- 
ganized being, could not then be known on the earth. If there were ` 
a new species of trilobite produced, and we know very well that there 
were many, and that they co-existed in perfect harmony, there could 
be no reason for the new species exterminating the old. The circum- 
stances which Mr. Darwin imagines make the struggle for life a neces- 
sity now did not then exist; the world was empty; earth, air, and 
water, unoccupied, were waiting for organized beings; and the un- 
tenanted globe, with all its vast surface, could offer to the first new 
creatures an almost infinite domain. 
Supposing, however, for argument's sake, that B. was iutroduced 
by natural selection, we know that its appearance must imply the ex- 
termination of A., for natural selection is in fact nothing but improved 
organization pushing out of existence the unimproved competitor.* 
Let us, then, grant that an independent, accidental B. had made its 
appearance, then, of course, A. has been exterminated! So, then, the 
first and the only created form in the world was exterminated, the single 
work of the Creator was destroyed, and Natural Selection took into her 
hands the task of the rest of creation, which sHE accomplished with 
superior. skill and power. If, then, Mr. Darwin has introduced the 
Creator on the stage for the first form, he has soon cleared away the stage 
and brought other actors on the scene of a widely different character. 
Who, however, can accept such speculations? who can even contem- 
plate them with patience? The first form of life represented as an act 
of divine power, but the second the result of aceident— ** variations 
might be beneficial.” So, then, the Creator close at hand, who had, 
as it were only yesterday, made the first organized being, is heard of 
and seen no more, and in His place blind matter, mee intellect or 
power of action, makes a new form, because “it woul neficial," 
though there was neither mind to perceive that it would de beneficial, 
nór volition to desire it, nor power to make the requisite transformation. 
This plan, however, requires another consideration, for it is obvious 
that according to this scheme of life the existence of more than one 
organized being could not be effected. Let us return to our alphabet 
to see this. B. is master of the ime by having exterminated A. ; 
pu bp da Riga tal incertae 
sponding degree with its competitors it will oon be exterminated” tie 107). 
