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in a transmigration of bodies as well as in a transmigration of 

 souls ? 



I believe, therefore, that as a dog sometimes eats grass, it 

 shows clearly that hi due time he will turn into an ox ; and just 

 hi the same way as the reindeer sometimes devours the hamster, 

 so is he sure to turn into one or other of the carnivora. I can't 

 exactly at present say which, but if you wait long enough you 

 will see it to be as I say no doubt about it. Nous verrons. 



I believe, entre nous, that Shakespeare must have been of my 

 way of thinking, for he gives his well-known character in the 

 Midsummer Nighfs Dream an ass's head, who then naturally enough 

 says, " Methinks I have a great desire for a pottle of hay : good 

 hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow." So that you see when a man is 

 turned into an ass, he will be sure to like thistles in the end, and 

 to bray like a donkey as he must be. What's one man's food is 

 another man's poison, you know. 



I believe that when the buffalo is floating under the water, 

 with only his mouth out, for some hours at a time, Natural 

 Selection is "at play," and has her eye upon him with a view to 

 his becoming this, that, or the other, as the case may be. 



I believe, " I see no difficuly in believing," anything at all that 

 comes into my head, and you must do the same, without 

 expecting any proof from me. 



I believe, it is with me a sine qua non, that " in order that any 

 great amount of modification should in the course of time be 

 produced, it is necessary to believe that when a variety has once 

 arisen, it again varies and so onwards." That is to say, you 

 must tiil.f nil this on credit ; for I have no proof of it, and there- 

 fore can give you none. You must take assertion for proof, and 

 is not that enough for any one? It may bo u novelty in a 

 scientific enquiry, but with that you have nothing to do. Lr;i\o 

 it all to me. You say, I may M tell it to the Marines." I know 

 I may. I can do :md say what I like. You say further, that 

 perhaps they may turn, in the end, into a Horse Marines." Of 

 course they can, and I think it not only not impossible, but 

 highly probable ; very ! far more unlikely things have IMVJI made 

 to happen in my philosophy, and " what has been, may be," you 

 know. 



