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continued not only through the thousands of years 

 that history records, but for the unmeasured ages 

 of geologic time ? If greenings, and russets, and 

 Baldwins, and hundreds of other kinds, can in a few 

 years be originated from one kind, why might it 

 not be found, if we could go back millions of years, 

 that oaks, and pines, and elms, and peaches, all came 

 fiom the same stock ? This is the question which a 

 real believer in development propounds to us. We 

 see similar changes constantly going on in animals 

 as well as in plants. 



How very unlike the different breeds of horses, 

 all springing from the same stock ! Now since the 

 different breeds of horses have, within comparatively 

 few years, sprung from the same stock, if we could 

 go back millions of years, why might we not find 

 that horses and cattle and beasts of every kind 

 sprang from the same stock ? 



This is the second question which the real deve- 

 lopment theorist puts to us ; and then to be consis- 

 tent, he adds : since man as a physical being is an 

 animal, if we go back far enough, why may we not 

 find him to be a branch from the same stock, mak- 

 ing his way up by development through the line of 

 monkeys to his present high position ? And that 

 we may know just how it is supposed this variation 

 may be brought about, I quote from Darwin, the 

 great champion of the modern development theory: 



" In North America, the black bear was seen by 

 Hearne swimming for hours, with widely open 

 mouth, thus catching, like the whale, insects in the 



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