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the genera Anguis, Ophisaurus, and Pseudo- 

 pus, the Chamosauria, Chirotes, Bipes, Sepo, 

 Scincus, and at last the true lizards. It would 

 seem to any reasonable man that these types 

 are the transformations of a single primitive 

 type, so closely do the modifications approach 

 each other; and yet I now reject any such 

 supposition, and after having studied the facts 

 most thoroughly, I find in them a direct proof 

 of the creation of all these species. It must 

 not be forgotten that the genus Anguis be- 

 longs to Europe, the Ophisaurus to North 

 America, the Pseudopus to Dalmatia and the 

 Caspian steppe, the Sepo to Italy, etc. Now, 

 I ask how portions of the earth so absolutely 

 distinct could have combined to form a con- 

 tinuous zoological series, now so strikingly dis- 

 tributed, and whether the idea of this develop- 

 ment could have started from any other source 

 than a creative purpose manifested in space ? 

 These same purposes, this same constancy in 

 the employment of means toward a final end, 

 may be read still more clearly in the study of 

 the fossils of the different creations. The 

 species of all the creations are materially and 

 genealogically as distinct from each other as 

 those of the different points on the surface of 

 the globe. I have compared hundreds of spe- 



