*i SPECIES NOT 



of the first, and consequently is the highest de- 

 velopment of Mr. Darwin's original primordial 

 vertebrate form. He was not then, according to 

 this doctrine, specially created. 



It will be seen further on, that Mr. Darwin 

 arrives at his ultimate typical form, not by any 

 special design or creation, but that in the cour>e 

 of myriads of ages, varieties of form occurring 

 "accidentally" or otherwise have given certain ani- 

 mals a superiority over others in the "struggle for 

 existence," which is the great moving spring at 

 the root of all his speculations. It is then quite 

 clear that if these views are correct, it matters 

 but little whether Mr. Darwin gives us four or 

 five progenitors, or only one. In either case he 

 denies a special creator either to plants or animals, 

 and thus at one blow destroys all that we have 

 so long held and cherished among the riches of 

 our knowledge that beautiful adaptation <t' strue- 

 ture to its varied uses, which some have called 

 design, life, motion, development; which others 

 have called evidence of Natural Religion; and 

 above all, man himself, with his attributes sen- 

 sation, thought, consciousness, in a word reason 

 all these are swept away as a proof of special 

 creation; they are but the results of fortuitous 

 variation, acting without order or even natural 

 law ! 



But differing, as I do, from Mr. Darwin in his 

 interpretation of facts, and denying, as 1 do. the 

 soundness of his premises and the correctness of 

 his deductions, I am quite willing to admit that lie 



