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lution of one species into another has 

 ever come within the observation of man." 



5. Virchow. "Man has not descended 

 from the ape, or from any other animal 

 whatever." 



6. Barraude. " The theoretical Evo- 

 lution of the trilobite is a mere figment of 

 the imagination, without any foundation 

 in fact." 



It will be observed, that the conclusion 

 which these distinguished savans have 

 unanimously come to, adverse to the 

 Darwinian theory, rests upon the fact that 

 there is not one single instance in the files 

 of geological time, embracing it may be 

 millions of years, of one species, extinct or 

 extant, in the act of turning into another. 

 Hence the Times once remarked somewhat 

 severely on this patent failure of the 

 hypothesis 



" This is precisely the solution which 

 Mr. Darwin is unable to apply to his 

 instances of his approximation between 

 species. If he could say in a single 

 instance, solvitur ambulando, here is a case 



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