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quence of the working of some “bundles of forces,” about which they know 
nothing themselves. And yet such men are ready to admit that matter 
is omnipotent, and consider a disbelief in the omnipotence of matter as 
tantamout to imbecility; for, what is the assumed power of matter to pro- 
duce all finite beings, but omnipotence? And what is the outery raised 
against*those who cannot admit it, but an insinuation that they are non- 
compos? The book of Mr. Darwin is free of all such uncharitable senti- 
ments towards his fellow-laborers in the field of science; nevertlieless 
light by Mr. Darwin ; but this. process of raising breeds by the selection 
of favorable subjects, is in no way similar to that which regulates specific 
differences, othing is more remote from the truth than the attempted 
ies of 
wild ones. Did there exist such a parallelism, as Darwin maintains, the 
difference among the domesticated breeds should be akin to the differ- 
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races, ain, if there were any such parallelism, the distine- 
tive characteristics of different breeds should be akin to the difference 
hn betw ossil species of earlier periods and those ° th same 
Ta now living. ow let any one familiar with the fossil species of 
