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waters of the earth ! Is it so ? On the contrary, 

 though exposed to a "struggle for existence" of a 

 most devastating kind, forming, as they do, the 

 natural food of thousands of stronger and superior 

 forms to themselves, there they exist more nu- 

 merous than ever, and live and die as they did 

 millions of years ago ! Why, if we had asked 

 about the transitional forms, U 0h !" would have 

 been Mr. Darwin's answer, u they, the weakest, 

 have gone to the wall, and become extinct." 

 Your evidence? "That is lost in the imperfection 

 of the geological record !" 



No, it is a mistake to talk about the degraded 

 condition of an organ, or to consider u an optic 

 nerve merely coated with pigment, and without 

 any other mechanism" as a transitional condition, 

 which it must be if Mr. Darwin's theory is true. 

 Every eye, from the black speck on the Poly gastric 

 animalcule up to the eye of man, is perfect in 

 itself; and nothing can illustrate better what 

 seems so difficult for Mr. Darwin to understand 

 by special creation, why organs as well as beings 

 should have been formed on the same type, then 

 a glance at the various forms of eye which are 

 adapted to the different species of the animal. 

 They are on the same type, because the same 

 object is obtained in each by the same means. An 

 animal lives in water, and its eye is formed to 

 allow for the refraction of light. Another animal 

 living in water has a limited range of existence, 

 and its light is limited accordingly. In birds 

 the sight is more acute and distinct than even 



