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by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; 

 and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on 

 according to the fixed law of gravity, from so 

 simple a beginning, endless forms most beauti- 

 ful and most wonderful have been, and are 

 being, evolved." 



I have now indicated, in a most sketchy way, 

 a few of the evidences of evolution. I have 

 chosen to speak of only the most familiar 

 cases, because they are seldom mentioned in 

 contemporary writings, and because they seem 

 to me to be among the best proofs of evolution. 

 We have been looking so far into the past, 

 have searched so diligently for great facts, have 

 so urgently desired to see the missing links, 

 and have so confounded ourselves with philoso- 

 phy, that we have forgotten to go out and see 

 the creation going on about us. 



Having taken this brief survey, we may now 

 consider some of the consequences of the 



