THE 



REFUTATION OF DARWINISM: 



AND THE 



Converse Theory of Development, &c. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Darwin's Theory. 



TO appreciate a Refutation, it is necessary to know 

 exactly what it is which is refuted. To meet this 

 need, we commence by giving Darwin's theory. 



Mr. Darwin's theory of the Origin of Species, as 

 propounded in his works " The Origin of Species" and 

 "Animals and Plants Under Domestication" is as fol- 

 lows : 



As Mr. Darwin professes to base his theory, not 

 upon mere speculation as to the processes which have 

 obtained in the past, but upon obvious inferences from 

 tlje actual behaviour of things in the present, and from 

 processes now in operation under our very eyes, he 

 takes the reader directly to the barnyard, to the gar- 

 den, and to the field. Here, under domestication, the 



individuals of each species, display great variation and 



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