12 All the Articles of tJte Darwin Faith. 



Although in spite of an " enormous accumulation of 

 probabilities, we yet stand without the direct production of 

 a new species from one common stock," nevertheless, 

 against the evidence of my senses, I believe that such has 

 been the case with all the so-called species in the world. 



Although the remains of the horse existed in geological 

 fitrata 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 resembled 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 other 

 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 separated, as it has three bones on the 



