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be the case, if every one were a distinct creation. 

 Creation would probably be carried on in groups 

 which, though independent of each other, might be 

 classified under distinct heads. But Mr. Darwin is 

 totally unable to supply the next link in his chain, 

 by showing that in any one case these species have 

 become intermingled. The laws of nature appear to 

 be quite fixed and absolute in this respect, and no 

 change can ever be traced by which any one species 

 is merged in another. In order to prove his theory, 

 Mr. Darwin should have been able to cite cases in 

 which new forms of life have been thus evolved ; but 

 he fails to do so, and cannot cite a single case confir- 

 matory of the process by which he supposes the whole 

 zoology of the globe to have been metamorphosed. In 

 the next place, were we for the sake of argument to 

 concede that this process of Evolution by Natural 

 Selection and Sexual Selection had produced all the 

 innumerable varieties of life which exist, they would 

 bear the unmistakeable evidence of design, and there- 

 fore that they would be the manifestations of a Great 

 First Cause. These secondary agencies, to which he 

 refers, would in that case be the mere instruments 

 of His Will. We might as well suppose that the 

 Transfiguration by Kaphael or the Communion of St. 



