40 EVOLUTION AXD NATURAL THEOLOGY. 



Herbert Spencer* represents an ephemeron as 

 reasoning that men and women must have been 

 specially created as adults, because he could see 

 no change in them in the course of his own 

 existence. Such, in sober truth, is the actual 

 position occupied by naturalists during their 

 investigations into the various problems con- 

 nected with the Origin of Species. 



* " Biology," pt. 3 ch. 2. 



