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I believe generally that " natural instincts are lost under 

 domestication," although I have the preceding fact and number- 

 less others staring me in the face to show me the exact contrary, 

 and that they are at the most but dormant, and ready to be 

 restored to their former fulness. 



I believe that young chickens have lost by habit the fear of 

 dogs and cats, although I have no possible proof whatever, and 

 cannot possibly have any proof, that they ever had such. 



I believe that the cuckoo " once upon a time " did not lay her 

 eggs in other birds' nests, but has acquired the habit by degrees, 

 some " old bird" or other profiting by the mistake, or the young 

 being made stronger by it, viz. : by being tended by a foster 

 parent instead of by their natural one ! and so becoming ." apt to 

 follow" that unnatural practice; and this though I see that 

 various birds " occasionally " lay their eggs in other birds' nests, 

 and yet have acquired no such habit: 



I believe that although in spite of an " enormous accumulation 

 of probabilities, we yet stand without the direct production of a 

 new species from one common stock," yet nevertheless, against 

 the evidence of my. senses, I believe, I say, that such has been 

 the case with all the so-called species in the world. 



I believe that although the remains of the horse existed in 

 geological strata of "enormous antiquity" long before any in- 

 dications of the existence of man have yet been found, and 

 although those remains show that the horse and the ass at that 

 remote period exactly resembled in nearly every respect the 

 horse and the ass which now run wild in many parts of Asia and 

 Africa, and although, " going still farther back to the Upper 

 Miocene period, the horse is still found with its present peculiari- 

 ties, and the two differ from each other only in minute details," 

 yet as the remains of the hipparion or " little horse," are found 

 in the same deposit as the horse, namely, the Upper Miocene, so 

 that it could not have been its ancestor, though like it in several 

 respects, and as the remains of the anchotherium are only found 

 in the Lower Miocene, so that there is a wider gap between it 

 and the hipparion than between the latter and the horse, still, 

 for all that, inasmuch as iii the anchotherium the leg bones are 



