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passing through all time, and yet escaping through 

 all the ''struggles for existence/' and now in this 

 advanced age of creation, shewing no modification 

 of form no improvement by "natural selection?" 

 And mark, this is one of a class of creatures, 

 (the Protozoa,) of which a few teaspoonsful of 

 water would yield more in number than all the 

 other animals in the world! Nay, their remains 

 actually form the entire structure of some of our 

 thickest geological formations, as the chalk, and 

 yet we are calmly to believe that there has been 

 a "struggle for existence" going on from all time, 

 by which the stronger must obtain the mastery 

 over the weaker ! But the ameba and the sponge, 

 the rhizopod and the infusorial animalcule still 

 exist, and will for ever prove the permanence 

 and stability of species. These creatures all live 

 upon each other, but the lowest and the highest 

 forms, with their intermediate grades, still retain 

 their unaltered individuality. 



Mr. Darwin says, and truly, that the rate of 

 increase of animal life is so great, even in the 

 slowest-breeding animals, that if there was not a 

 "struggle for existence," a triumph of the strong 

 over the weak, there would, in a few thousands 

 of years, be no room for them upon the earth, 

 in fact that the carnivora have already reached 

 their maximum. 



"Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty- 

 five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand 

 years, there would literally not be standing room 

 for his progeny." (Page 64.) How does Mr. 



