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widely different from those which most species appa- 

 rently have undergone. He will further be compelled to 

 believe that many structures beautifully adapted to all 

 the other parts of the same creature and to the surround- 

 ing conditions, have been suddenly produced; and of 

 such complex and wonderful co-adaptations, he will not 

 be able to assign a shadow of an explanation. He will be 

 forced to admit that these great and sudden transforma- 

 tions have left no trace of their action on the ernbrvo. 

 To admit all this is, as it seems to me, to enter into the 

 realms of miracle, and to leave those of Science. 



