20 ^177 the Article* of the Darwin Faith. 



imagination"). "We thus learn," also "in imagination,' 

 about the " tail and pointed ears," " probably derived " 

 from something or from something else (" some reptile-like, 

 or some amphibian-like creature") or "this again from 

 some fish-like animal." Thus "in the dim obscurity of the 

 past, we can see " ( ? ) what this animal " must have been ; " 

 or rather what I must after all own it to have been. 



I believe this is a highly satisfactory and conclusive result 

 of the " eleven years," labour I have expended on my last 

 publication. 



I believe that all the wisest men of the world for the six 

 thousand years since it is commonly supposed to have been 

 created, or six hundred thousand million years, or any 

 number more, as I believe, have been altogether wrong, 

 and that it has been reserved for me in this so-called nine- 

 teenth century to set them all right and lay down the law 

 for ever. 



I believe that it may help my argument, if I can find 

 people simple enough to believe that humble bees are 

 common in gardens, and scarce elsewhere in comparison, in 

 consequence of being preyed on by field-mice which are 

 kept down by cats about houses ; the fact being, as any 

 national-school boy can see, that those bees abound near 



