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ri l>;itions of a beginning and a first that was to be, as it 

 were, a new creation of all things : whereas Mr. Darwin 

 himself exclaims (iii. 18), "It is mere rubbish thinking 

 at present of the origin of life !" Had Mr. Darwin but 

 used, instead of the word origin, his own other word for 

 the idea in his mind, " modification," namely had his 

 title-page ran, " The Modification of Species by means of 

 Natural Selection," I question whether Mr. Murray, with 

 all his experience, would, for each of the thousand copies 

 he did sell, actually have sold ten. 



For myself, in conclusion, I must say this : I admire 

 the naturalist and I honour the man ; but I hope to be 

 forgiven if, " for the life of me." I cannot but smile when 

 assured by Mr. Darwin that there is not necessarily 

 such a thing as design in this universe, 



" Now that the law of natural selection has been discovered." 



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