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affording them a supplementary means of res- 

 piration! The fact is, that without this swim 

 bladder Mr. Darwin could not get on a step; 

 because he knows full well that the gills of a 

 fish, the trachea of the insect, the mantle of 

 the oyster, the beautiful respiratory sac of the 

 ascidian, the tentacles of the polyzoa, although 

 all made for breathing purposes, are only analo- 

 gous to the lung, or, in other words, the type 

 of organization is different arid distinct. The 

 swim bladder is the only, what is called honiology 

 to the lung of the higher vertebrata, which the 

 great chain of animated beings will give him. 

 But does not this display in strong light the 

 utter want of support which Mr. Darwin's theory 

 will get from known facts. If the organs I 

 have mentioned, which are adapted to the 

 functions of breathing, have no type in common 

 with the lung, there can be no conversion of 

 one into the other by Mr. Darwin's theory. He 

 does not, however, pretend to get over this in- 

 superable difficulty, but contents himself with 

 the expression of a belief that lung-breathing 

 animals were descended from an animal with a 

 swim bladder, the prototype, and all intermediate 

 forms, being lost in the Imperfection of the 

 geological record!" 



I will conclude this chapter by adducing one 

 or two instances of adaptation, which could only 

 have been the result of a great intelligence, 

 acting with forethought through the medium of 

 special creation. Such proofs, it is true, crowd 



