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process, are we to assume that it can by any 

 stretch of imagination, even be considered analogous 

 to any other germ, in which the process is the same, 

 while the end is entirely different? Surely not. 

 That this atom passes through the phases of being, 

 resembling somewhat in shape the permanent 

 condition of other animals, is only one of the ten 

 thousand beautiful examples of harmony, in Crea- 

 tive Wisdom. I hope we shall very soon banish 

 from our system of philosophy, arguments founded 

 upon the grossest misapplications of creative law. 

 Professor Huxley further remarks, "The question 

 was not so much one of a transmutation of species 

 as of the production of forms, which become 

 permanent." 



But this is entirely going away from Mr. 

 Darwin. If the theory were true, there could 

 be no such thing as permanence, as Mr. Darwin 

 admits, when he expresses a belief, that "no living 

 thing is destined to transmit its form unaltered 

 to a far distant posterity." 



Dr. Hooker again, in his answer to the Bishop 

 of Oxford, remarks, "The first of these doctrines, 

 (transmutation of existing species one into another) 

 was so wholly opposed to the facts, reasonings, 

 and results of Mr. Darwin's work, that he could 

 not conceive how any one who had read it, could 

 make such a mistake." 



As I did not hear the Bishop's remarks, and 

 as I see nothing opposed to Mr. Darwin's theory 

 in the report published in the "Athenaeum," I 

 am driven to the conclusion that Dr. Hooker, on 



