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malia. It taps with its delicate, apparently ab- 

 normal, wire-like finger, just as a doctor taps his 

 patient's chest it, in fact, percusses the tree ! 

 By its acute bat-like ears it is able to hear any 

 difference in the sound between the solid wood 

 and the hollow gallery of the grub, Its intelli- 

 gence tells it at once here is "game." It now 

 brings into play its "rodent" teeth, and gnaws 

 down to its quarry ; then it inserts its long 

 "abnormal" finger, it "prehends" its food arid 

 eats it. 



Now, I say unhesitatingly that these several 

 acts shew a pre-determined design, and a special 

 adaptation in the Designer to several distinct 

 ends, for which purpose HE chooses from the 

 types of the animal form, the means which are 

 best calculated for His purpose. According to 

 Mr. Darwin's theory, some squirrel, "arrested in 

 development at an early period," varied, and was 

 born a small wreckling. Unable to get nuts 

 like its race, it inserted one of its claws into 

 the holes of trees after grubs. This finger con- 

 sequently grew longer than the others, and the 

 young squirrel now lived upon grubs. A race of 

 these young grubbers were of course established, 

 and then came a great fight for grubs. Those 

 which heard the best got more food, and their 

 ears grew; the duller hearing ones dying off in 

 the struggle for existence. Madagascar being cut 

 off from the rest of the world, the new animal 

 became an inhabitant thereof, and continuing to 

 vary, other lemurs were formed by "divergence," 



