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from natoal causes And those typical similarities which are trace- 

 able) under adaptive modifications, must obviously exist if, through- 

 out creation in general, there has gone on that continuous super 

 posing of modifications upon modifications which goes on in every 

 unfolding organism. 



[I might with propriety have added to the foregoing criticisma, 

 the remark that Professor Owen has indirectly conferred a great 

 benefit by the elaborate investigations he has made with the view of 

 establishing his hypothesis. He has himself very conclusively proved 

 that the teleological interpretation is quite ii-reconcilable with the 

 facts. In gathering together evidence in support of his own con- 

 ception of archetypal forms, he has disclosed adverse evidence which 

 I think shows his conception to be untenable. The result is that 

 the field is left clesir for the hypothesis of Evolution as the onlv 

 tenable one.] 



