ORGANIC E VOL UTION. 6 1 



to the areas which they inhabit which has 

 determined their creation upon those areas, 

 is conclusively proved by the effects of the 

 artificial transportation of species by man. 

 For in such cases it frequently happens 

 that the imported species thrives quite as well 

 in its new as in its old home, and indeed 

 often supplants the native species. As the Maoris 

 say, — " As the white man's rat has driven away 

 the native rat, so the European fly has driven 

 away our fly, so the clover kills our fern, and 

 so will the Maori himself disappear before 

 the white man." 



Upon the whole then we are driven to the 

 conclusion, that if the special creation theory 

 is true, the various plants and animals have 

 not been placed in the various habitats which 

 they occupy with any reference to the suit- 

 ability of these habitats to the organisations 

 of these particular plants and animals. So 



