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facts of the case, and find the 150,000 species of 

 animals. This process we suggest in the interests 

 of evolution, to show its way in the world. But 

 unfortunately the best will cannot save it, as the 

 world goes; the world itself turns round and will 

 not have it. For what are the facts of the case, as 

 they stood just recently? Though many new species 

 are found, yet the proportions of the following 

 table need not be considered changed. Instead of 

 beginning with 10, and going on as we have reck- 

 oned, we start and proceed in the following ratios: 

 10,209, 5160, 4901, 303, 1310, 4730, 5500, 16,970, 

 and 150,000 in the present age. The arithmetic is 

 entirely out of order and false, if evolution is true. 



194. Where did the 10,209 of the first age come 

 from, or the 150,000 of the present? Where have 

 their ancestors gone to? W T hat fatality descended 

 on nature as it was, if nature as it is comes down 

 from it by the descent of species? 



195. As to the question whence the 10,209 of the 

 first or Silurian age came, Mr. Darwin answers as 

 we quoted him before (No. 66). He says, in his 

 Origin of Species: "Where are the remains of those 

 infinitely numerous organisms which must have ex- 

 isted long before the first bed of the Silurian system 

 was deposited?" Mark the words, "which must have 

 existed"! He answers the question thus: "They 

 may all be in a metamorphosed condition, or may 

 be buried in the ocean." 



196. And fourthly, as to anything like a chain of 



