THE DARWINIAN THEORY 



gent agency presided over the whole order- 

 ing. But unfortunately this quasi-super- 

 natural superintendent sometimes makes 

 serious mistakes in his operations. What 

 is a common wart? It is a mistake in nu- 

 trition, which if dark in color should be 

 cut out, at least in elderly people, because 

 no one can tell when it may turn into a 

 well-named malignant growth. Likewise 

 all tumors have no business to be where 

 they are found, but particularly those 

 dread cancers and sarcomas which kill by 

 growing just where they please in defiance 

 of all order or superintendence. More- 

 over, that some very general law of per- 

 verted nutrition is here at work, is proved 

 by cancerous tumors occurring in all kinds 

 of vertebrates, sheep, oxen, lions, tigers, 

 mice, and even in fishes. But more than 

 that we can artificially change the whole 

 process of development by shaking or de- 

 taching the primitive layers from one an- 

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