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CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



THUS we see, after reviewing all that is said 

 for and against the hypothesis of evolution and 

 the special Darwinian form of it in particular, 

 that this hypothesis is itself built on doubtful 

 hypotheses as to variation ; that it starts from 

 supposed variations under domestication which 

 are entirely unproved ; then, assuming that some 

 animals vary in some directions, it infers that 

 all animals vary in all directions, contrary to 

 the analogies of the rest of nature ; that many 

 of the grounds on which it is supported are 

 inspired by the idea that all like things are in 

 fact the same thing transmuted, which idea was 

 at the bottom of alchemy and many other 



