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" how " we have the declaration of Mr. Francis Darwin to 

 that effect was how "an analogous divergence takes place 

 under domestication where an originally uniform stock of 

 horses," etc. In a word, what Mr. Darwin, at least in 

 fancy, saw in his carriage was a stock of horses splitting 

 up, and, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the 

 " joy " transported him to the " carnivorous quadruped " 

 in the jungle. Unlike the horse with his park and his 

 paddock, his stall and his stable, his combs and his 

 currycombs, his beans and his oats, his balls and his 

 mashes, the " carnivorous quadruped " roams at its own 

 will, masterless, without a check. Nevertheless, much 

 to his delight, Mr. Darwin found that this carnivorous 

 quadruped would do quite easily whatever he (Mr. 

 Darwin) had a mind it should do. How frankly 

 supposititious it all is ! Mr. Darwin puts the bridle on 

 the neck of his imagination, and actually tells, nothing 

 doubting, of every strange quarter it brings him into. 

 This, probably, is one of the very passages Sedgwick 

 laughed at " till his sides were sore." But what ordinary 

 reader would ever expect that the vast conclusions, in 

 revolution of Europe, Christendom, the Universe, of the 

 greatest Naturalist that was then alive or that had ever 

 lived, were conditioned by such common considerations 

 as those of Mr. Darwin " whilst in his carriage ? " "A 

 country that has long ago arrived at its full average " of 

 carnivorous inhabitants a country that is not " under- 

 going any change in conditions " " a natural power of 

 increase being allowed to act," whatever that may mean 

 descendants that " vary," and that " seize " places actually 

 " at present occupied by other animals " " some of them 

 feeding on new kinds of prey," " either dead or alive "- 

 " some inhabiting new stations, climbing trees, frequenting 

 water, and some, perhaps, becoming less carnivorous "- 

 " what applies to one animal applying throughout all 



