CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



STRUGGLE for existence considered. Objections to Mr. Darwin's view 

 of the subject. Increase of animal life. Inconsistency of Mr. 

 Darwin's prophecy of the future earthly condition of 'mankind. 

 Natural selection. Does it exist? Reasons for disbelief in such a 

 force. Accidental variation. Origin of change into species, of some 

 varieties. Grave objections to such a view. Design, as evinced 

 in colour of animals. Mr. Darwin's strange views on the subject. 

 Other illustrations considered. Comparison of Christian vuavs of 

 the Creator in I860, with those of Cicero before the Christum era. 

 The "Vestiges" more plausible than Mr. Darwin's view. 62 77 



CHAPTER V. 



INTERCROSSING. Extinction. Objections to Mr. Darwin's views of the 

 latter as applied to his theory. Docs the less-favoured form become 

 extinct? Extinction a law of Nature. Proofs of displayed in the 

 records of geology. Owen on succession of new speetoff. "Dili- 

 gence of character" considered. Objections to proof from domestic 

 animals. Absence of all proof of transmutation of species. ^J^/ilo/m 

 triticoides. Dr. .Maclean's experience. Gartner and Kolreiitei'> it-- 

 searches. Mr. Knight's views. Agassiz on hybrids. Mr. Darwin's 

 illustration of his subject by the simile of a huge tree. The author 

 adopts a similar illustration in answer. Mr. Darwin strains homo- 

 logics into identities. Creative wisdom displayed in adoption of 

 similar type in organization. Instances of adaptation adduced. 

 Human hand and foot. Thoracic duct; its beautifully adapted 

 mode of entrance into the reins. Difficulties of assuming that Mich 

 organs resulted by variation from animals in which they do not 

 exist! The blood; its various character in different animals; the 

 size of its disc. The lung. The Corpora Olicaria. Mr. Murray on 

 adaptation in Wellingtouia yiyunlta. Dr. Davy on adaptation in 

 growth of birds 78103 



CHAPTER VI. 



LAW of variation considered. Use and disuse. Wings. Mr. Murray 

 on blind beetles. Wingless insects. Acclimatization. So-called 

 "habits" of flowers. Mummy seed. "Correlation of growth" con- 

 sidered under two propositions. Anthropoid apes. The Gorilla, 

 Chimpanzee, Orang-outang, and Gibbon. Great anatomical distinction 

 between the highest ape and man. Summary of their different 

 characters. Owen's deductions 104 120 



CHAPTER VII. 



CORRELATION of growth further considered. Mr. Darwin's views upon 

 the variable tendency of parts developed in an extraordinary manner. 

 His reasons unsatisfactory. Second proposition considered. Objec- 

 tion to the inference drawn from the proposition. Fertility of hybrids. 

 Mr. Darwin's views of special creation. Absurdity of assuming a 



