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badgers, etc.? The animals which these beu.-ts 

 live upon must have been formed by special 

 creation for their exclusive use. Natural selection 

 could not have done it according to Mr. Darwin's 

 own shewing. 



Then, again, there is the horse. According to 

 Mr. Darwin it is a transmuted tapir. But 

 when for the benefit of the animal, did that 

 part of the structure of the tapir become altered 

 by "natural selection" for the good of the horse? 

 It gave it, say, increased swiftness, removed a 

 proboscis-like nose, added a tail, took away 

 from each upper jaw one molar tooth, enclosed 

 its toes in a hoof, doubled its height, and 

 converted its tough, thick, rhinoceros-like hide, 

 into the soft, hairy, moveable skin of the horse. 

 But where was the good of all this to the tapir? 

 At present it roams about its natural forests, 

 feeding like the wild boar, bathing in the mire 

 like a rhinoceros; and, although it is occasionally 

 attacked by the jaguar, it lives, no doubt, a 

 life of average happiness, and is the father of 

 many families. What good to the animal, then, 

 did "natural selection" do, by converting it 

 into a horse, which is the slave and servant 

 of man? Doomed to a life of labour, often to 

 cruelty, and almost always to a violent death; 

 for whose good was the change made? Surely 

 not for the animal, but for man. If a hackney 

 cab-horse were to speak in a cold winter's day 

 in London, could we not imagine that he would 

 express a wish that he were a tapir, wild 



