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but he never does show that these slight lines are so 

 overstepped. With all his wonderful knowledge of 

 Natural History, he cannot prove this from fact. 

 On the contrary, his work teems with instances in 

 which the very slightest different characteristics are 

 always permanent, and no intermingling takes place. 

 For example, in two or three different species of 

 bees, so resembling each other in every particular, 

 nourished by the same food, living in the same 

 fields, constructing almost similar hives, and yet 

 separated from each other by a few marked differ- 

 ences, and remaining always distinct. This, I think, 

 is a fatal objection to Mr. Darwin's theory, that he 

 always supposes that at some remote period such 

 causes have separated different organisms, but he 

 never adduces a fact to support this theory, and all 

 the known laws of Nature seem to contradict it. 



Another modern author has bequeathed to English 

 literature an interesting work on the 'History of 

 Civilisation.' It must be a matter of regret to the 

 world of letters that Mr. Buckle was so soon re- 

 moved from among us in the midst of those labours 

 which bear the stamp of so much talent and origin- 

 ality of thought. But while all must admire his 

 early promise, and regret his loss, such a tribute does 



