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in accordance with his theory, the slightest permanent 

 variation in the forms of life. And as man, fully de- 

 veloped, existed at least in the later fossil period, his" 

 theory may require a greater immensity of time than is 

 allowed by geology for entire formation of the earth. 



And, in fine, if the law of selection be a true law of 

 nature, yet it and all the laws of nature are only for- 

 mulas, expressing human apprehensions of the way in 

 which the Creator carries on the universe. 



