136 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 



believe, and it may at least be asserted that the record 

 cannot be proved to be much more perfect, the main 

 objections to the theory of natural selection are greatly 

 diminished or disappear. On the other hand, all the 

 chief laws of paleontology ])lainly proclaim, as it seems 

 to me, that species have been produced by ordinary 

 generation: old forms having been supplanted by new 

 and improved forms of life, the products of Variation 

 and the Survival of the Fittest. 



