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my Lord, that, in the physical structure of man, and in the 

 building up of that structure, we see just a similar principle 

 at work. Mr. Darwin might as well maintain that all steam 

 engines have been developed from the tea-kettle, or all 

 paintings or sculptures from some common prototype, as 

 that man, because of some points of resemblance in his 

 structure and development to those of the lower animals, is 

 sprung from the same stock with them. 



Danvin. You know, my Lord, how I feel regarding that 

 dogma of "separate acts of creation," on which Homo seems 

 now to be falling back. 



Lord C. I am well aware how you feel regarding it, Mr. 

 Darwin, but, as you see, Homo also has his feelings. He 

 evidently prefers believing that man has been created 

 immediately by the Divine Being, to believing that he is 

 descended from " a hairy quadruped, with a tail and 

 pointed ears," and more remotely from a worm. He thinks, 

 too, that he has good grounds for his belief. What is the 

 next point ? 



Dancin. '^ Riidiimnis" my Lord. "Rudimentary organs 

 . . . are either absolutely useless, such as the mamm« of 

 male quadrupeds, or the incisor teeth of ruminants which 

 never cut through the gums ; or they are of such slight 

 service to their present possessors that we cannot suppose 

 that they were developed under the conditions which now 

 exist . . . Eudimentary organs are eminently variable. 

 . . . They often become wholly suppressed. When this 

 occurs they are nevertheless liable to occasional reappear- 

 ance through reversion. . . . Every one must have noticed 

 the power which many animals, especially horses, possess of 

 moving or twitching their skin ; and this is effected by the 

 panniculus carnosus. Remnants of this muscle, in an 

 efficient state, are found in various parts of our bodies;; 



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