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worth more than all Darwin's accumulated 

 labour on domesticated animals. How could 

 the humming-bird moth exist without its 

 proboscis ? How could the grub of the ant- 

 lion fc originate by accumulated increment ? 

 How could the jaws of the caterpillar come 

 into being piecemeal ? The theory of Dar- 

 win is the ne plus ultra of human stupidity. 

 It never could have occurred, except to one 

 incapable of understanding the corollaries of 

 organisation : but once having occurred, it 

 never could have been retained and defended, 

 except by one who was capable of systema- 

 tically ignoring whole classes of animal or- 

 ganisation, and attending only to instances 



1 The Ant-lion pupa has a pair of powerful jaws which 

 it uses to gnaw a hole in the sand-cemented walls of its 

 cocoon and escape. These jaws are used only in that 

 operation, once and once only, and are then cast off like 

 an old hat. Did these jaws, forsooth ! originate by ac- 

 cumulated increment ? How could an Ant-lion come into 

 existence without them ? 



