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this theory be true, are not Laury's objections well founded ? 

 As far as man is concerned, it may be difficult to give a positive 

 answer either in the affirmative or the negative ; but tlie experi- 

 ments which Mr. Galton has made on rabbits, for the express 

 purpose of testing Darwin's theory, show that in these animals 

 tmnsf usion has no effect eitlier on the animals themselves or on 

 their progeny. We may therefore, I think, safely conclude 

 that the risk of injuring a man's character, or that of his 

 descendant?, by transfusion of an animal's blood, is not for an 

 instant to be weighed in the balance against the chance of 

 saving his life in those cases where alone the operation would 

 be performed 



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