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as an alderman's nose gets red under turtle soup. 

 The fancier seizes hold of the change, and manages 

 to perpetuate part of this variation, so as to give 

 an abnormal character to his bird, for none of 

 these fancy pigeons are natural forms, and thus, 

 in course of time, he produces what appears to 

 be a distinct variety ! 



But Mr. Darwin invents a power in nature like 

 that of the pigeon fancier, which he imagines to 

 be ever present, to "take advantage" of any acci- 

 dental modification of structure in the wing of 

 the bird. This mysterious power, working through 

 endless ages, is gradually changing the wing, which 

 is formed for carrying the bird through the air, 

 into a hand, which is part of the structure of 

 the human race, or monkey. Here everything is 

 left to imagination. AYhat becomes of the un- 

 happy bird, in its myriads of intermediate stages 

 between a bird and a monkey, or man, we are 

 not told; but we are simply asked to believe, (be- 

 cause it is a part of Mr. Darwin's theory,) that 

 organs, though at first sight somewhat alike, yet 

 so different; designed for other purposes, and oc- 

 curring in animals of natures which have nothing 

 in common; adapted for different positions in the 

 great scale of nature; the one a beast that 

 perisheth, the other a reasoning being, with a 

 soul endowed with immortality, and made in the 

 express image of Him, by whom all was designed ; 

 that these organs should be altered by the result 

 of a chance variation; such an opinion as this 

 is, I say, so absurd, that in spite of the wrath 



