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it ever will, en a record is flatly against you, it is quite allowable 
eology. 
“There is positively hostile testimony from the rocks to be con- 
fronted. Whole groups of species suddenly and abru tly appear in 
certain formations, and seem at once to contradict any theory of trans- 
mutation of species. Either that fact or the theory must be overturned. 
course, Mr. Darwin accepts the former alternative, and strives to 
show how liable we are to error in supposing that whole groups of spe- 
cies have been suddenly produced. But another and an allied objec- 
tion may be started, derived from the manner in which numbers of spe- 
cies of the same group suddenly appear in the lowest known fossilifer- 
ous rocks. To meet this and uphold the new theory, it must be sus- 
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