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are to be treated with indifference. For the 

 grounds upon which these opinions are formed, 

 I must refer to the several works upon com- 

 parative anatomy and zoology which they have 

 written. 



Mr. Darwin next attempts -to give a definition 

 of "a species." This is one eminently calculated 

 to fall in with his theory. "A species," says 

 Mr. Darwin "includes the unknown element of a 

 distinct act of creation," and as he intends to 

 prove that all living things have arisen from 

 one form; and as he particularly and most 

 strongly combats the idea of the varieties of 

 animals and plants being the result of special 

 acts of creation, it is clear that in his opinion 

 there never could have been but one species, and 

 that was the original "unknown element of a 

 distinct act of creation." 



I will here again quote the elegant remarks of 

 Dr. Clemens, (Op. Cit,) as I think it would be 

 impossible to define correct notions about "species" 

 better; and I shall, in criticising Mr. Darwin's 

 views, always prefer to answer them in the words 

 of men of much higher authority than myself: 



"In endeavouring to form a conception of what 

 constitutes species, our ideas must be separated 

 from the individual, which is merely the repre- 

 sentative of species in some one of its special 

 states or conditions. Every mature or perfected 

 being has had an anterior organic history included 

 in the history of its structural progression, from 

 a collection of simple cells to a natural body 



