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transmuted into elephants by the power 

 of Natural Selection he still continues to 

 believe, observing in the same work that 

 " pigs have often been born with a sort of 

 proboscis " (p. 89). 



It must not, however, be supposed for a 

 moment that Darwin entertained Material- 

 istic or Atheistic notions like most of his 

 disciples, for he distinctly says " I be- 

 lieve that animals have descended from 

 at most only four or five progenitors, and 

 plants from an equal or lesser number. 

 Analogy would lead me one step further, 

 viz., to the belief that all animals and 

 plants have descended from some proto- 

 type. But analogy may be a deceitful 

 guide. Nevertheless, all living things have 

 much in common. Therefore I should 

 infer from analogy that probably all the 

 organic beings which have ever lived on 

 this earth have descended from some one 

 primordial form, into which life was first 

 breathed by the Creator.''* 



* Darwin's Origin of Species, p. 484. 

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