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locality, the productions have the type of a certain other 

 locality. All the animals under any one number may be, 

 at bottom, or in reality, the same ; and all the animals 

 under all the three numbers may be, at bottom, or in 

 reality, the same ; but where, for all that, is there a 

 moment's question of the origin of a single one of them ? 

 Here, too, the suggestion, just as we saw in the case of 

 the various beetles, the suggestion of mutual derivation, 

 is an eminently natural one ; but, so far, there is not even 

 a hint before us of such a thing as origin. Change there 

 is, not origin. We have a middle, elastic enough it may 

 be, but we have no beginning, no origin, no first. 1. 

 Before the pigmies there were the giants ; 2. side by side 

 with one closely allied animal, there is another closely 

 allied animal ; 3. the productions of one region have the 

 type of the productions of another region. If the types 

 are fully formed, no less fully formed already are the 

 antitypes. If one closely allied genus is fully formed, so 

 also equally is the next. And if the pigmies are fully 

 formed, surely it will be granted that the monsters, the 

 giants, were a good deal more fully formed, ages and ages 

 ago. Mr. Darwin's book is called the Origin of Species, 

 if we are to consider it expected of us to be as con- 

 tented in the end of the discussion as Mr. Darwin seems 

 here, so far as its suggestion goes, is it not certain that we, 

 for our part, must feel just a little disconcerted at present ? 

 Origin ! we are referred from the Galapagos to the South 

 American Continent, and there again the problem stares 

 us in the face, only harder than ever. What is the origin 

 of these South Americans ? Again origin ! What is the 

 origin of these pigmies ? and you only refer us to giants ! 

 Good heavens ! To be contented that the whole problem 

 of the pigmies was solved in the giants, and never once 

 to have asked what of these ! Surely the giants at once 

 suggest an infinitely more instant question as to origin 



