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that, considering all the evidence under the 

 head of geographical distribution, I think we 

 are driven to the yet further conclusion, that 

 if the special creation theory is true, the only 

 principle which appears to have been consist- 

 ently followed in the geographical deposition of 

 species, is the principle of so depositing them 

 as in all cases to make it appear that the suppo- 

 sition of their having been thus deposited is not 

 merely a highly dubious one, but one which, 

 on the face of it, is conspicuously absurd. 



