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years at least, there has been no change in certain species. 

 They have retained the same general form, and even the 

 same specific differences, for thirty centuries. And man 

 himself has not changed during that time. 



Lord C. But is there not a great difference between 

 three thousand years and three million years ? 



Homo. My Lord, if you multiply nothing by three 

 millions, or even by three hundred millions, it will be 

 nothing still. If three thousand years have literally done 

 nothing to develop one species into another and this may 

 be demonstrated to be the fact three thousand million 

 \ears would do as little. 



Lord C. We must return now to the subject of fossil 

 remains. It is clear, Mr. Darwin, that none have as yet 

 been found anywhere, to which you can refer as proving 

 the truth of your hypothesis. 



Homo. My Lord, England, and also the Continent, 

 abound in fossil remains. Our chalk hills are full of them, 

 and so are miles upon miles of the earth's strata all around 

 us. Railway contractors have been cutting through them 

 in every direction for nearly half a century ; yet geologists 

 cannot supply Mr. Darwin with a bone, or even a tooth, 

 which can help him to prove his assertions, not only as to 

 man's origin, but as to the origin of any species of creature 

 now living. He asserts that all living species have been 

 produced by Natural Selection from other species. Let him, 

 then, produce fossil remains which he can prove to be those 

 of the progenitors of any species of living animal, if he can. 



Lord C. It is vain to abk for that, Homo; it appears it 

 can't be done. 



//6//*0. So it seems, my Lord ; and thus, while, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Darwin, there has been not only a chain of 

 descent connecting man with this hairy quadruped, but 



