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k Two Objections answered 

 Effect of Morbid Action 

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XT. 

 Objections to the Theory of Descent with Modification considered. 





^Misrepresentations corrected .... 

 ^Lapse of Time and Extent of Area 



Why the Higher Forms have not supplanted the Lower . 



The Amount of Life must have a Limit 



The Broken Branches of the Tree of Life 



Why we do not find Transitional Forms 



How could the Transitional Form have subsisted? 

 (*\Yhy Xature takes no Sadden Leaps . 

 V Im perfect, Contrivances of Xature accounted for . 



Instincts as a Difficulty .... 



Some Instincts acquired and some lost 

 y Innumerable Links necessarily lost . 



Plenty of Time for the Xecessary Gradations 



Wide Intervals of Time between the Geological Formations 



Sudden Appearance of Groups of Allied Species . 



TIow little we know of Former Inhabitants of the World 



>The Extinction of Species involved in Mystery . 



Dead Links between Living Species . 



Living Descendants of Fossil Species 



Unnecessary to explain the Cause of each Individual Difference 

 ^OrFace to Face^rith an Insoluble Difficulty " 

 ^JJtfiy distasteful? ...... 



-^-' ^ggift Tsj^ter with what we kn owl>f" lE eCrcator*s Laws " 



-~rhe_CTrandenr of this "View of LiXe^U . 



mm Xot incompatible with the Belief in Immortality . , 



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