ON CREATION OE EVOLUTION. 199 



These thousands of years of artificial selection have failed to 

 develop a true new physiological species, seeing that the 

 wolf and dog still interbreed, and produce fertile oftspring, 

 their gestation is the same in duration, and osteologically 

 they agree. Here is an instance in which selection carried 

 out during several thousand years, having done so much in 

 regard to mental change, might reasonably have been 

 expected to have acted powerfully, in a vast crucial experi- 

 ment of this nature, as to physiological change. The non- 

 production of a physiological species is one of the outstanding 

 accounts against natural selection, in regard to which one of 

 Huxley's inconveniently clear statements is on record. " I 

 adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject to the pro- 

 duction of proof that physiological species may be produced 

 by selective breeding."* All the extended experiments in 

 this direction have not produced a normally fertile and stable 

 new species, the cases of hybrids between horses and asses, 

 sheep and goats, hares and rabbits having resulted in des- 

 cendants infertile or of limited fertility, or of a fertility 

 lapsing after a few generations. De Quatrefages speaks of 

 this infertility, or restricted and rapidly limited fertility 

 between species, as a law equal in the organic world to that 

 of attraction in the sidereal world, and says : " Suppress 

 upon earth the law of crossing and the confusion would be 

 immense. It is scarcely possible to say where it would stop. 

 After a few generations the groups which we call genera, 

 families, orders and classes would most certainly have 



disappeared."! 



Degeneration is a fact(jr almost invariable in individual, 

 family and national history, and evolutionists themselves 

 show the great effect the doctrhie of Dohrn has had upon 

 their teachings. A large number of individual animals 

 beside parasites are degenerate animals, and according 

 to evolutionary views one may consider all animals as 

 degenerate qua tliis or that organ or character. Man 

 himself is looked upon as highly degenerate, as to his 

 external ears, his organ of hearing which once was a gill- 

 slit, his sense of smell, his eyesight, his teetli, his non- 

 hairy skin, his pentadactyl and plantigrade state. These 

 are all matters of theory in line with evolutionary doctrines. 

 But, as to facts, we know how quickly man degenerates in 



* Man's Place in Nature, p. 150. 



t De Quatrefages, The Human Species, p. 80. 



