THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 61 
differences in their vertebre, nasal passages, and 
‘one or two other points. The guinea-pig has 
teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence 
ean never subserve the masticatory purpose for 
which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, 
the female dugong has tusks which never cut the 
gum. All the members of the same great group 
‘run through similar conditions in their develop- 
‘ment, and all their parts, in the adult state, are 
‘arranged according to the same plan. Man is 
‘more like a gorilla than a gorilla is like a lemur. 
‘Such are a few, taken at random, among the 
multitudes of similar facts which modern research 
has established ; but when the student seeks for 
§ an explanation of them from the supporters of 
the received hypothesis of the origin of species, 
the reply he receives is, in substance, of Oriental 
simplicity and brevity—* Mashallah ! it so pleases 
God!” There are different species on opposite 
sides of the isthmus of Panama, because the e 
mammals are like the existing ones, because such 
was the plan of creation ; and we find rudimental 
organs and similarity of plan, because it has 
pleased the Creator to set before Himself a 
“divine exemplar or archetype,” and to copy it in 
His works ; and somewhat ill, those who hold this 
view imply, in some of them. That such verbal 
hocus-pocus should be received as science will one 
day be regarded as evidence of the low state of 
