PREFACE. 



HAVE much pleasuro in giving tho following PEDIGREE AND COAT 



OF ARMS OF THE DARWINIAN FAMILY. 



The antiquity of this very ancient race is beyond dispute, its 

 genealogy having been famished by the present head of the family him- 

 self, so that its authenticity and its genuineness are both alike 

 established. 



It traces its origin to an ancestor who lived, or vegetated, it is not 

 quite certain which, billions upon billions of years before the " year one " 

 of our records. It is briefly given, as above stated, on pages 10 and 11 

 of the present work, from which it is clearly shown that neither families 

 of Norman, or Saton, or even, before them, of Ancient British origin, 

 are fit to be named in the same day with it for precedence. 



It is also extremely interesting to notice that a coat of arms was 

 borne by the first man so, though not quite correctly, strictly 

 speaking, to call him though it appears that he wore .no other clothes 

 of any kind. 



Of still more importance is it to note that all the doubts which 

 have heretofore existed as to the origin of language, are hereby and for 

 ever set at rest. 



For though it is, indeed, true that in our times mottoes may be 

 changed at pleasure, while shields and crests can not, yet it need not 

 for a moment be supposed that such was the case in that early period 

 whereunto no record or " memory of man runneth." 



Hence, "I believe." "we may believe," "I cannot doubt," "I can 

 indeed hardly doubt," by the " use of Imagination,'' or, in other 

 words, it is certain, that both Latin and English were, in common 

 parlance, the speech of the great ancestor of the Darwinian race. 



BLAZON OF THE COAT OF ABM^ OF THE DARWINIAN FAMILY: 



Tarty per pale, quarterly, first and fourth, azure (-'the infinite azure 

 of the past"), a demi-semi-savage, sable, standing on vacancy, decorated 

 with tho Order of the Garter on the right knee, and with a long tail curled 

 up; over it a scroll with the legend,"! could a' tale unfold," and the 

 motto, ' Noil tali auxilio" Second and third, a mermaid, vert, in full 

 ball costume, crined, hair dressed a la Eugenie, -and wreathed with an 

 embroidered sash or girdle marked with the morels, " Dcsinit in piscem 

 mulier formosa sup erne." 



On an escutcheon of pretence, per bend, gules and . argent, inter- 

 changed, a Philosopher, in Purls Natitralibus Selectissimis, standing on the 

 air, in nubibus, gorged with a bar sinister, and holding in both his hands 

 a library of lectures, intituled, " Da omnibus rebus c.t quibutdiin a///'.---." 



Crest, a monkey rising out of a monad, all improper, within a halo 

 of moonshine. 



Supporters, dexter, a bear naiant, argent, tusked and langued, ' with 

 hre mouth open catching flies" (Darwin), "very like a whale" (ditto). 

 Sinister, a ^ivat't'c. rampant reguardant, gules, the tail nowhere, but in 

 placo of it the legend, Non cst inreiitus, and over the head a .swarm of 

 Tzctze flics. 



Mottoes: Above the arms, Qni vult decipi dccipiatur ; beneath the 

 arms, S-ic volo, stet pro ration e -coluntas ; under the crest, "Homo sum ;" 

 above the crest, "Am I not a man and a brother?" 



With these few prefatory remarks I leave the following " Confession 

 of Faith'' of the present representative of the " Origin " of mankind, to 

 commend itself, as best it may, to the common sense of the people of 

 England, well assured and confident that they will thoroughly appreciate 

 the great value of Darwinism to immortal men. 



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