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" perfect running machine," equal in speed, perhaps, to his "little 

 horse." u A perfectly flat cow, with only one big hind leg and 

 two fore legs." "A female with a very compressed bird's 

 face." "A woman with two long cow-horns." 



Who, I say, can for one moment doubt that these are most 

 important discoveries for the Evolutionists, supply ing as they do 

 some of the many intermediate steps which have hitherto been so 

 much wanting to them in their replies to the arguments of common 

 sense ? Eureka ! may now be commended to them for a 

 triumphant motto in future. 



I am, &c., 



Nunburnholme Rectory, F. 0. MOBRIS. 



Hayton, York, 



Dec. l&th, 1876. 



A GUARD AGAINST THE GUARDIAN." 



The following correspondence will speak for itself. The first 

 letter appeared in the " Guardian" of September 5, 1877 : 



" EVOLUTION. 



" SIR, As you have done me the honour of mentioning my 

 name in connection with the subject of Evolution, will you allow 

 me space for a few lines on one part of the subject, the 

 importance of which cannot, I think, be over-rated ? Holding 

 the opinion that I do about it, I could not keep silent. 



" I allude to your remark that whether all animals and plants 

 were called into existence by the fiat of the Almighty Creator 

 in the way that has from the first hi all ages been believed, or 

 by development from some few originals, or even from one, 

 * can make no difference from the religious point of view.' 



" To my mind it makes, as Aristotle says, ' not a little, but 

 the whole difference.' I have seen the same thing said before 

 by others, but only to my amazement whenever I have seen 

 it. 



