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timid and superficial notice of the work in the London Atheneum of 
ov. 19th. It is no doubt destined to produce a great discussion on what 
may properly be called the most fundamental truth of natural history.— 
Ep 
8. 
_ “Naturalists of the highest eminence are thoroughly satisfied that each 
species of animal—all that flies, and walks, and creeps, and wades—has 
been independently created; and the majority of naturalists have agreed 
with Linnzus in supposing that all the individuals propagated from one 
stock have certain distinguishing characters in common, which will never 
vary, and which have remained the same since the creation of each spe- 
dies. Mr. Darwin, on the contrary, believes that ‘the innumerable spe- 
ies, genera, and families of organic beings with which this world is peo- 
pled, have all descended, each within its own class or group, from com- 
mon parents, and have all been modified in the course of descent. To 
_ When he views ‘all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal de- 
ed to severe competition. | 
adness, and her garner-houses 
irds sing, insects hum, beasts 
