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away. But I venture to think they will nevertheless 
maintain their ground, and that they can only be 
met by the discovery of new facts or new laws, of 
a nature very different from any yet known to us. 
I can only hope that my treatment of the subject, 
though necessarily very meagre, has been clear and 
intelligible; and that it may prove suggestive, both 
to the opponents and to the upholders of the theory 
of Natural Selection. 
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