CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



RESULTS of Mr. Darwin's enquiries, and the inevitable tendency of 

 his theory. Objections to his inferences and conclusions. Develop- 

 ment progressive according to the Darwinian hypothesis. Special 

 creation denied by Mr. Darwin. Want of proof of Mr. Darwin's 

 views. Domestic animals modify from alteration in the circum- 

 stances of existence. No analogy between such variation and that 

 of Nature. Pre-silurian world essential to Mr. Darwin's theory. 

 Utter want of proof of such a world. Lowest rocks. Mr. Mackie's 

 lirst traces. No proof of gradual succession of lower into higher 

 forms in time. Extinct animals. Lamarck The Vestiges. Does 

 Mr. Darwin's law of variation exist in nature? Reasons for the 

 conclusion that it does not. 1 24 



CHAPTER II. 



MR. DARWIN'S arrangement of his subject. Variation and its causes. 

 Mr. Darwin's views of correlation untenable. Inheritance. Objections 

 to the doctrine that a pure form could have originated from an 

 imperfect variety. Law of variation not constant, therefore not a 

 natural law. If "divergence of form," a true doctrine, lines, must 

 have fallen in historic period. Non -variability of coral polypes 

 proved by Agassiz for two hundred thousand years. . 25 3G 



CHAPTER III. 



'VARIATION under Nature" considered. Dr. B. Clemens, on fixity of 

 species. Owen on non-variability of dog. Wollaston on the dis- 

 tinction between species and varieties. Agassiz on permanence of 

 species, on the variation of domesticated animals, and the succession 

 of created beings. Darwin's definition of a species. Dr. Clemens, 

 Mr. Wollaston, and Dr. Carpenter's definitions. Monsters, a degra- 

 dation from normal standard, and frequently produced by unnatural 

 mode of life. Mr. Darwin's views on progressive development. Swim 

 bladder of fish used as an argument for transmutation of organs of 

 respiration its fallacy. General view of Mr. Darwin's doctrine, as 

 contrasted with Nature as she is. Glance of progressiye develop- 

 ment from the monad to man, and the inevitable result of Mr. 

 Darwin's views, being the transmutatiuu of the ape into man. 

 Grave objections to ssueh an hypothesis. . . . 37 61 



