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species in times past, whether historic or geologic ; 

 the second to the imperfection of the geological rec- 

 ord ; while the third is based on the infecundity 

 among individuals of different species. All three 

 objections are obvious and popular ones, and they 

 are, it must be admitted, not without their difficul- 

 ties. Men of science, however, are satisfied that 

 they have met these difficulties, and flatter them- 

 selves that they have long since given adequate, if 

 not complete, answers to the three objections men- 

 tioned. But the objectors themselves., are not so 

 minded. They still persist in asserting that their 

 difficulties remain unexplained, and that their ob- 

 jections have lost little, if any, of their original 

 cogency. 



Historical and Archaeological Objections. 



The first objection, then, is based on certain well- 

 known facts of history, prehistoric archaeology, and 

 paleontology. 



As to history and archaeology we are informed, 

 that all their indications positively negative the con- 

 tention of evolutionists that there is not the slight- 

 est evidence, from the earliest dawn of civilization 

 until the present time, that there has ever been a sin- 

 gle instance of the transmutation of any one species, 

 whether plant or animal, into another species. On 

 the contrary, it is averred, all the well-attested facts 

 of history bearing on the subject, make unmistak- 

 ably for the absolute stability and immutability of 

 species in both the great kingdoms of nature, animal 

 and vegetable. 



