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faunas, or by reaches of ocean in the case of terrestrial 
faunas—stocking oceanic islands with an enormous 
profusion of peculiar species all allied to those on the 
nearest mainlands,yet everywhere avoiding the creation 
upon them of any amphibian or mammal, except an 
occasional bat. We are familiar with the doctrine 
that God is a God who hideth himself; here, however, 
it seems to me, we should have but a thinly-veiled 
insinuation, not mercly that in his works he is 
hidden, but that in these works he is untrue. Than 
which I cannot conceive a stronger condemnation of 
the theory which it has been my object fairly to 
represent and dispassionately to criticise, 
