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differences in their vertebrae, nasal passages, and 

 one or two other points. The guinea-pig has 

 teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence 

 can never subserve the masticatory purpose for 

 which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, 

 the female dugong has tusks which never cut the 

 gum. All the members of the same great group 

 run through similar conditions in their develop- 

 ment, and all their parts, in the adult state, are 

 arranged according to the same plan. Man is 

 more like a gorilla than a gorilla is like a lemur. 

 Such are a few, taken at random, among the 

 multitudes of similar facts which modern research 

 has established ; but when the student seeks for 

 an explanation of them from the supporters of 

 the received hypothesis of the origin of species, 

 the reply he receives is, in substance, of Oriental 

 simplicity and brevity " Mashallah ! it so pleases 

 God ! " There are different species on opposite 

 sides of the isthmus of Panama, because they were 

 created different on the two sides. The pliocene 

 mammals are like the existing ones, because such 

 was the plan of creation ; and we find rudimental 

 organs and similarity of plan, because it has 

 pleased the Creator to set before Himself a 

 " divine exemplar or archetype," and to copy it in 

 His works ; and somewhat ill, those who hold this 

 view imply, in some of them. That such verbal 

 hocus-pocus should be received as science will one 

 day be regarded as evidence of the low state of 



