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position and uses in the world having been 

 preordained by the Creator." l Professor Owen 

 says he has taught the doctrine of derivation 

 (evolution) for thirty years, but it attracted 

 little attention. As soon, however, as Darwin 

 leaves out design, we have a prairie-fire. A 

 prairie-fire, happily, does not continue very 

 long ; and while it lasts, it burns up little else 

 than stubble. 



4. All the evidence we have in favor of 

 the fixedness of species is, of course, evidence 

 not only against Darwinism, but against evolu- 

 tion in all its forms. It would seem idle to dis- 

 cuss the question of the mutability of species, 

 until satisfied what species is. This, unhappily, 

 is a question which it is exceedingly difficult 

 to answer. Not only do the definitions given 

 by scientific men differ almost indefinitely, 

 but there is endless diversity in classification. 

 Think of four hundred and eighty species of 

 humming-birds. Haeckel says that one natu- 

 ralist makes ten, another forty, another two 

 hundred, and another one, species of a certain 

 fossil ; and we have just heard that Agassiz had 

 collected eight hundred species of the same 

 fossil animal. Haeckel also says (p. 246), that 



1 The Fallacies of Darwinism, p. 305. 



