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and cats, although I have no possible proof whatever, and cannot pos- 

 sibly have any proof, that they ever had such. 



I believe that the ctickoo "once upon a time" did not lay her eggs 

 in other birds' nests, but has acquired the habit by degrees, some " old 

 bird " or other profiting by the mistake, or the young being made 

 stronger by it, viz. : by being tended by a foster parent instead of by 

 their natural one ! and so becoming " apt to follow " that unnatural 

 practice : and this though I see that various birds " occasionally " lay 

 their eggs in other birds' nests, and yet have acquired no such habit. 



I believe that although in spite of an " enormous accumulation of 

 probabilities, we yet stand without the direct production of a new 

 species from one common stock," yet nevertheless, against the evidence 

 of my senses, I believe, I say, that such has been the case with all 

 the so-called species in the world. 



I believe that although the remains of the horse existed in geo- 

 logical strata of " enormous antiquity " long before any indications of 

 the existence of man have yet been found, and although those remains 

 show that the horse and the ass at that remote period exactly re- 

 sembled in nearly every respect the horse and the ass which now run 

 wild in many parts of Asia and Africa, and although, " going still 

 farther back to the Upper Miocene period, the horse is still found with 

 its present peculiarities, and the two differ from each ether only in 

 minute details," yet as the remains of the hipparion or " little horse,'' 

 are found in the same deposit as the horse, namely, the Upper Miocene, 

 so that it could not have been its ancestor, though like it in several 

 respects, and as the remains of the anchotherium are only found in 

 the Lower Miocene, so that there is a wider gap between it and the 

 hipparion than between the latter and the horse, still, for all that, 

 inasmuch as in the anchotherium the leg bones are still more sepa- 

 rated, as it has three bones on the fore limb, which " theory requires 

 that it should have," (!) " it being impossible to obtain evidence more 

 complete in kind than this of the origin of the horse," ergo, I say, I 

 believe that the horse is descended from the anchotherium. Q. E. r>. 

 (Huxley.) 



Horses have sometimes been born with extra toes, crijo I believe 

 that " the horse must at one time have had the leg and foot bones 

 complete, although they were blotted out before the horse was turned 

 into a perfect running machine ! " (Huxley.} 



The Darwin Doctrine therefore being THUS (!) " made out in this 

 one case of the horse," I believe that it is strong evidence that " similar 

 modifications have taken place in all cases." (Huxley) (Equally strong, 

 no doubt ! No doubt at all about it ! ) 



I believe that the common saying that one " cannot draw blood 

 out of a stone " is the reverse of truth, and that not only bones, sinews, 

 and life can be produced from them, but also, mind, reason, and the 

 voice of conscience, which though would-be philosophers and atheists 

 brave out in daylight, they are so horribly afraid of in the dark. 



I believe that I alone am right, although I see that though slight 

 crosses benefit the offspring, greater crosses, i.e., those of widely sepa- 

 rated species, produce sterile hybrids, and I "cannot persuade myself 

 that this parallelism (!) is an accident or an illusion." 



I believe I am right, although I see that the widely different forms 

 of the pigeon among birds, and the cabbage and other varieties among 

 plants, are productive together, while other species " though resembling 

 each other most closely, are utterly sterile when crossed," and I admit 

 that the former is " almost invariably the case." 



I believe that the " imperfection of the geological record," showing 

 no regular chain of species, and so giving no proof of my theory, and 



