ORIGIN OF ANIMAL LIFE. 23 



it is an error " (as he proves it is) " to consider man as derived 

 IVoni monkeys, wo must admit that men are not derived from a 

 common stock, because the differences which exist among men, 

 are of the same kind, and quite as striking, as the differences 

 which exist between monkeys and the lower animals." Also : 

 " The doctrine which I support, is that it is not only the 

 few which were started in the beginning by a creation act, but 

 the many." 



AVo do not say however that one animal may not produce 

 some other, just as <<ome plants produce others. "Wheat, for 

 instance, if sown one year and cropt during the summer and 

 autumn, will produce a crop of rye the following season. 



All plants and animals may be classed as parasites. Not 

 only has each variety of mineral its peculiar soil, and each soil 

 a plant peculiar to itself which may be considered its parasite ; 

 but in almost every instance, the plant itself has other smaller 

 plants or animals parasitical to it. Each animal also, while a 

 parasite to certain soils, has other animals parasitical to itself, 

 and so on indefinitely. 



Raspberries produce an insect peculiarly their own, so do straw- 

 berries, apples, figs, and in fact every kind of fruit. Yet these 

 same fruits, when preserved, will produce a different kind of 

 insect from that which it produces in its natural state. Thus 

 showing that the nature of the animal, is dependent on the 

 matter it springs from, and feeds on. 



All animals including man are parasites of the earth, and 

 each is peculiarly fitted for the climate in which it is a native. 



The camel, the elephant, the lion, the moose, the polar bear, 

 the seal ; in fact each particular animal, enjoys its life to the 

 utmost in the place where it is found ; and speaking generally, 



