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far from misinterpreting Mr. Darwin, I have been enabled to 

 bring out more clearly what are his exact position and 

 teaching now, by defining more exactly what was his original 

 theory of the origin of species. 



Also, that though by no means necessarily involving 

 irreligious or anti-teleological conceptions, there is no sHght 

 danger of the strengthening of these errors by a certain use 

 of the Darwinian theory. 



My little book was directed to two objects, — one to show 

 that Natural Selection is not the origin of species; the other 

 that Evolution is perfectly compatible with the strictest 

 Christian orthodoxy: and, in spite of my esteem for Mr. 

 Chauncey Wright, and a careful and respectful consideration 

 of all that he has urged, I cannot at present see my way to 

 retracting or even modifying, in deference to his criticism, 

 one single passage of my work on Specific Genesis. 



