SO SPECIES NOT 



reason and common sense, in almost every page! 



But does the less favoured form become ex- 

 tinct? Mr. Darwin says it does. Geology and 

 Professor Owen say it does not. "There are 

 characters in land animals rendering them more 

 obnoxious to extirpating influences, which may 

 explain why so muny of the larger species of 

 particular groups have become extinct, while 

 smaller species, of equal antiquity, have survived. 

 In proportion to its bulk is the difficulty of 

 the contest which the animal has to maintain 



against surrounding agencies In a dry 



season the large animal will suffer more than 

 the small one, both from drought and insufficiency 

 of food; if new enemies appear the small ones 

 will conceal themselves, and escape. Small quad- 

 rupeds, moreover, are more prolific than large 

 ones. Those of the bulk of the mastodons, 

 megatheria, glyptodons, and diprotodons, are 

 uniparous." (Appendix to Classification and 

 Geographical Distribution of Mammalia, page 56.") 



But extinction is a law of nature; we find 

 evidences of it throughout the whole record of 

 Geology. Unlike, however, Mr. Darwin's hypo- 

 thesis, all evidence is not hidden, but displayed by 

 the organisms of past worlds, and is equally 

 demonstratable by what we see passing before our 

 eyes in modern times. If the natural selection 

 theory were a law of nature, why should not 

 geology and modern history be equally explicit? 



Then as to the succession of new species, which 

 Mr. Darwin attempts to explain by his theory. 



