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"No doubt about it, and the results are before ua in all the 

 species of the several Orders of animated nature. Nothing 

 whatever is proved, but that it pleased the Almighty Creator at 

 the first to mould the embryos of the multitude of his handi- 

 works, thus ' curiously hidden,' as the Psalmist says, under one 

 general type of form. 



" And yet again, Darwin, as all the world knows, has never 

 yet been able to produce or point to any one single existing 

 creature of any kind in the act of Evolution from one species to 

 another ; and that for the best of all possible reasons. Nor has 

 he been able to do so in the case of the creatures that have so 

 long been extinct ; no, not a single one in any of the incon- 

 ceivably vast ceons of time he is obliged to invent to build his 

 baseless theory on. 



" Even so is it with the embryos of them. Can Dr. Allen 

 Thomson show us any one of their embryos in any such 

 transitional state ? I trow not ; not one does he, because not one 

 can he. He must leave them where and as he found them ; he 

 will end where he began, be no wiser than he is now, and all 

 that he will be able to get them to tell him is that the ' Hand 

 that made them is Divine/ and that ' whatsoever the Lord 

 cd, that did He, in the earth, and hi the sea, and in all deep 

 places/ 



>[ay I make one other remark in reference to your leading 

 article on the subject ? 



" You mention the fact that some of Darwin's factitious 

 phrases, such as 'Natural Selection, 5 'survival of the fittest,' 

 * struggle for existence,' have been (though to some small 

 extent only) naturalised among us as cant words, as if tliat was 

 a sort of quasi proof that there was something in his theories. I 

 cannot for one moment admit this. It would be ea'sy, I think, to 

 mention only too many additions to the stock of plirases in our 

 language that are not of any very great scientific value as 

 proving anything. 



"F. 0. MORRIS, 



"Nunburnholme Rectory, 



" Hayton, York, 



, 1877." 



