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deduction being drawn from the exceptional 

 cases, which he finds do occur to this rule, and 

 the same remark will apply to the views of 

 Agassiz. 



Mr. Darwin says that to believe,- because the 

 hybrid of the ass and the hemionus is like a 

 Welsh pony, in having three shoulder stripes, 

 and even some zebra-like stripes on the sides of 

 the face, which are similar to the striped Kattywar 

 breed of horses to believe, he says, that animals 

 were created with a tendency to vary thus, 

 "makes the works of God a mere mockery and 

 deception."- -(Page 167.) 



But before I can be satisfied that Mr. Darwin's 

 theory is not a "mockery and deception," I must 

 have something much more like proof than lie 

 offers of his natural selection, and so-called parti al 

 and inconstant law of variation. And 1 must 

 demur to the inconsistency of adducing the fact, 

 (assuming it to be true,) that members of the 

 same family shew features similar to other mem- 

 bers specifically distinct, under peculiar circum- 

 stances, like those given above, to prove that they 

 were not specially created ! 



According to Mr. Darwin's theory, of a common 

 origin to all vertebrated animals, why should the 

 next group, the Ruminants, not run back to the 

 horse? or the elephant to the whale? or why 

 not be marked by some of the gaudy colourings 

 of the "bird, or the sparkling splendour of the 

 fish ? Or why should there not now arid then 

 be born an oviparous mammal from the ox, or 



