374 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 
islands were peopled; lastly and thirdly, the peculiar 
character presented in general by the flora and fauna of 
islands taken as a whole. 
All these chorological facts given by Darwin, Wallace, 
and Wagner—especially the,remarkable phenomena of the 
limited local fauna and flora, the relations of insular to conti- 
nental inhabitants, the wide distribution of the so-called 
“cosmopolitan species,” the close relationship of the local 
species of the present day with the extinct species of the 
same limited territory, the demonstrable radiation of 
every species from a single central point of creation—all 
these, and all other phenomena furnished to us by the 
geographical and the topographical distribution of organisms, 
are explained in a simple and thorough manner by the 
theory of selection and migration, while without it they are 
simply incomprehensible. Consequently, in the whole of 
this series of phenomena we find a new and weighty proof 
of the truth of the Theory of Descent. 
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