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bering a few or even a single genus, and other* 

 again being altogether disregarded. Such freedom 

 indicates selection, and not the working of the 

 law of necessity." (Page <>7.) 



With regard to the whales, and their rudi- 

 mentary teeth, of which so much use has been 

 made by Mr. Darwin in his argument, wo find the 

 following arrangement, made by that accurate 

 observer Brisson, a hundred years ago: 



The first order of Cetaceans have itt> AvV//. 

 (Balsena;) seven species. 



Second order. Teeth in the lower jaw only, 

 (Cetus, sperm-whale, etc.;) seven species, in soim 

 of which the teeth are pointed, others falciform, 

 and in others slightly recurved. (Why this. Mr. 

 Darwin?) 



Third order. Two long teeth only in the upper 

 jaw; one genus and species, (Ceratodon.) Tin 

 narwhal. 



Fourth order. Teeth in both jaws; one genus. 

 five species, (Delphinus.) The dolphin, etc. 



Here we see at a glance the expression of the 

 Creator's thought, and by adaptation to circum- 

 stances, the development or suppression of teeth 

 at pleasure. According to Mr. Darwin, by a 

 kind of miracle, the process of growth and de- 

 velopment became somehow stopped, and he can 

 only bring forward the supposition of disuse! 

 But we see no evidence of disuse in the toeless 

 Saurian, any more than in the rudimentary teeth 

 nf the whalebone whale. 



Of all animals, however, I think the whale is. 



