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resemblance. This is not strange considering what we all 

 admit, viz., that man is constructed on the same general type 

 or model with other mammals. If there are points of resem- 

 blance between full-grown men and full-grown animals, it 

 would be singular indeed were there no points of resemblance 

 between their embryos while in process of development. 

 But these points of resemblance in their embryos do not 

 prove them to be sprung from the same progenitors. 



Homo. My Lord, I was conversing on this subject the 

 other day with a gentleman who has long been engaged in 

 the manufacture of steam engines. Every one that he has 

 produced has been constructed on the same general type. 

 Each of them has a general resemblance to the others. 

 And this resemblance might have been detected while they 

 were being fabricated. The process of manufacture was 

 similar in the case of all of them. "Why, then, may not the 

 All-wise Creator, in the building up of the material frame- 

 work of the successive creatures He has called into existence, 

 pursue a similar course ? 



Lord C. That is a question for Mr. Darwin to 

 answer. 



Homo. But which he has not answered, my Lord. The 

 same remark might be made regarding works of art. The 

 productions of a painter or sculptor, for example, in their 

 beginnings have many points of resemblance ; but are 

 they therefore developed one from another ? Are they not 

 all separate creations, though planned by the same mind, 

 and elaborated by the same hand ? And does not the 

 painter or sculptor try that each of his productions should 

 advance on those that have preceded it ? Does he not also 

 bring forward, as far as he can, into each successive pro- 

 duction, all the knowledge, and skill, and power, that have 

 distinguished his former productions ? It seems to me 



