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ground for doubting that man might have originated 

 by the gradual modification of a man-like ape. . . . 

 I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject to 

 the production of proof that physiological species 

 may be produced by selective breeding." (Evidence 

 as to Man's Place in Nature, pp. 105 8.) But this 

 is the very thing which neither Darwin nor any of 

 his disciples have ever been able to produce. His 

 " hypothesis, " then, necessarily falls to the ground. 



APPENDIX I, PAGE 105. 



So Mr. Charles Bray, in his Manual of Anthro- 

 pology, p. 129, claims the merit of having intro- 

 duced the theory of Natural Selection as far back 

 as 1 840, some years before Darwin's Origin of Spe- 

 cies appeared. And Dr. M. Fuke, of Dublin, in 

 his work on Organism, which was published at the 

 same time, affirmed that "all living creatures were 

 evolved from some primary creation of a few forms, 

 or of one, into which life was first breathed by the 

 Creator." 



APPENDIX J, PAGE 112. 



On the Genesis of Species, by St. George Mivart, 

 F.E.S., pp. 5, 24. At p. 189 he calls attention to a 

 grave mistake of Mr. Darwin, when he speaks in his 

 Origin of Species of the "woodpecker (Coloptes cam- 

 pestris) having an organization quite at variance 

 with its habits, and as never climbing a tree, though 

 possessed of the special arboreal structure of other 



