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wings during the many generations in the 

 course of which it was being effected, and 

 who can testify that all, or the overwhelming 

 majority, of the beetles born with fairly well- 

 developed wings got blown out to sea, while 

 those alone survived whose wings were con- 

 genitally degenerate. Who saw them go, or 

 can point to analogous cases so conclusive as 

 to compel assent from any equitable thinker ? 

 Darwinians of the stamp of Mr. Thiselton 

 Dyer, Professor Ray Lankester, or Mr. Ro- 

 manes, insist on their pound of flesh in the 

 matter of irrefragable demonstration. They 

 complain of us for not bringing forward some 

 one who has been able to detect the move- 

 ment of the hour-hand of a watch during a 

 second of time, and when we fail to do so, 

 declare triumphantly that we have no evidence 

 that there is any connection between the beat- 

 ing of a second and the movement of the 

 hour-hand. When we say that rain comes 

 from the condensation of moisture in the 

 atmosphere, they demand of us a rain-drop 

 from moisture not yet condensed. If they 



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