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Two Objections answered 

 Effect of Morbid Action , 

 Transmission limited . 



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Objections to the Theory op Descent with Modification considered. 



Misrepresentations corrected .... 



Lapse of Time and Extent of Area . 



Why the Higher Forms have not supplanted the Lower . 



The Amount of Life must have a Limit 



The Broken Branches of the Tree of Life 



Why we do not find Transitional Forms 



How could the Transitional Form have subsisted? 



Why Nature takes no Sadden Leaps . 



Imperfect Contrivances of Nature accounted for . 



Instincts as a Difficulty .... 



Some Instincts acquired and some lost 



Innumerable Links necessarily lost . 



Plenty of Time for the Necessary Gradations 



Wide Intervals of Time between the Geological Formations 



Sudden Appearance of Groups of Allied Species . 



How little we know of Former Inhabitants of the World 



The Extinction of Species involved in Mystery . 



Dead Links between Living Species . 



Living Descendants of Fossil Species 



Unnecessary to explain the Cause of each Individual Difference 



" Face to Face with an Insoluble Difficulty " 



Why distasteful? ...... 



" Accords better with what we know of the Creator's Laws " 

 The Grandeur of this View of Life .... 



Not incompatible with the Belief in Immortality . 



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