TRANSMIT! ABLE. 123 



in a great variety of forms, placed, as we have 

 seen, according to its organization, very high in 

 the scale of mammalia, is an abnormity a monster 

 something altogether unnatural, because it does 

 not support the doctrine of natural selection! 



Having given us no proof of this variability, 

 in what he calls abnormal parts, and having 

 thus disposed of an objection which is clearly 

 fatal to his theory, Mr. Darwin very compla- 

 cently asks, How is this to be accounted for, 

 on the view of each species having been inde- 

 pendently created? Now, as I do not admit that 

 any part of organic structure in the whole world 

 is abnormal, but that everything is specially 

 adapted to its purpose by a wise Creator; and 

 as my faith has not been in the least shaken 

 by any of Mr. Darwin's arguments, or mode of 

 reasoning, I need riot of course take any notice 

 of a question which sufficiently answers itself. 

 Neither need I notice Mr. Darwin's remarks 

 about what he calls secondary sexual variability. 

 I proceed to his second proposition. 



2nd. Distinct species present analogous va- 

 riations; and a variety of one species often as- 

 sumes some of the characters of an allied species, 

 or reverts to some of the characters of an early 

 progenitor. 



I do not see so much objection to this prop- 

 osition, as I do to the inference which Mr. 

 Darwin draws from it. And here I may make 

 a remark, which is applicable to almost all the 

 book. Mr. Darwin frequently illustrates the vari- 



