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each individual, as a distinct being, has a definite course to run from the 
time of its first formation to the end of its existence, during which it 
never loses its identity nor changes its individuality, nor its relations to 
other individuals belonging to the same species, but preserves all the cat- 
egories of relationship which constitute specific or generic or family aflin- 
ity, or any other kind or degree of affinity. Zo prove that species varyit | 
should be proved that individuals born from common ancestors change 
the different categories of relationship which they bore primitively to one 
another. While all that has thus far been shown is, that there exists a con- 
siderable difference among individuals of one and the same species. This 
may be new to those who have looked upon every individual picked up at 
random, as affording the means of describing satisfactoril y any species; but 
may be so. But as long as no fact is adduced to show that any one 
well known species among the many thousands that are buried in the 
and other stories. Credat Judaeus Apella! 
_ Had Mr. Darwin or his followers furnished a single fact to show that 
individuals change, in the course of time, in such a manner as to p 
at last species different from those known before, the state of the case 
might be different. But it stands recorded now as before, that the anh — 
mals known to the ancients are still in existence, exhibiting to this day 
from the beginning, that the supposed intermediate forms between 
Species of different geological periods are imaginary beings, called Up 
merely in support of a fanciful theory. The origin of all the diversity E 
Sook living beings remains a mystery as totally unexplained as if the 
<p Me however plausible it may appear, can be admitted in scien i 
remarkable for the fairness with which he presents the facts adverse 
his views. It may be so; but I confess that it has made a very different 
Impression upon me, I have been more forcibly struck by his inabill 
“s 
to perceive when the facts are fatal to his argument, than by anything 
else in the whole work, His chapter on the Geological Record, in PA 
