" O ye fools, when will ye understand! He that made the 



EYE; shall He not see!" Psalm xciv. 8, 9. 



ALL THE 

 ARTICLES OF THE DARWIN FAITH. 



CREDO QUIA IMTOSSIRILE EST. 



IB ELI EVE that we are the people, and that wisdom shall die 

 with us. 



I believe, I am ready to believe, anything- like the Infidel of old 

 provided only it is not in the Bible. 



I believe that my theory of natural selection is right, and that 

 every one who does not hold it is in the wrong 1 , although the difficulties 

 " are so grave, that to this day I can never reflect 011 them without 

 being- staggered." (Dtinc'ui.} 



I believe that man, and all the animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, and 

 insects in the world have descended from one single original, and not 

 any of these from ancestors of their own kinds ; that the gnat and t'ie 

 elephant, the cat and the mouse, the bat and the butterfly, the whale 

 and the ant, the toad and the swallow, the hare and the tortoise, the 

 croco lile and the lamb, the humming-bird and the snake, the mole and 

 the monkey, and then the man, are all one species and only one. 



I believe this, although I see that while animals of the several 

 species described by naturalists breed solely together, and that their off- 

 spring are prolific, in like manner, generation after generation, any 

 others which may exceptionally breed together have no progeny, except 

 in very rare cases, and that any they may have leave no descendants, 

 except still more rarely for perhaps one further generation or so. 



I believe that all the various creatures on the earth have sprung 

 from a single parent, although I hold that each new species has "sup- 

 planted and c.i-tcrniinated its original parent and all the trtinsiliomil 

 rarirfir* between its past and present status." (D/t-i'H'itt.) 



I believe that the drooping of the ears in domestic animals is due 

 to the disuse of the muscles of the ear, from the animals not being 

 much alarmed by danger, althou >h I see the horse with erect ears, 

 and the hare and the rabbit with strikingly drooping ears. 



I believe that the temporary variation of several races of any one 

 species of plant is a proof that permanent so-called species are thus 

 produced, although I see that the varieties if left for many generations 

 in a poor soil would to a large extent by degrees, and in the end 

 wholly, revert to the form of the wild aboriginal stock. 



I believe that I am using an able and sensible argument in 

 saying that the mistletoe may metaphorically be said to struggle with 

 other fruit-bearing plants in order to tempt birds to devour and thus 

 disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. 



