4 All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 



the crocodile 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 whilst animals of the 

 several species described by naturalists breed solely together, 

 and that their offspring 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 " supplanted and exterminated its original 

 parent and all the transitional varieties between its past 

 and present status." (Darwin). 



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, although I see 

 the horse with erect ears, and the hare and the rabbit with 

 etrikingly drooping qars. 



I believe that the temporary variation of several races of 



