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primitive original species ? But, if not j— if you will not grant 
this, then be logical, and make your own theory utterly 
« harmonious,” as the more outspoken Darwinists do. lhese 
may be Mr. Warington' s deductions from Mr. Darwin s book, 
or Mr. Darwin's own views;— but hear what Dr. Louis 
Buchner says 
The law of analogies ; the formation of prototypes ; the necessary depen- 
dence upon external circumstances which organic bodies exhibit in their 
origin and form ; the gradual development of higher organic forms from 
lower organisms ; the circumstance that the origin of organic beings was not 
a momentary process, but continued through all geological periods ; that each 
neriod is characterised by creatures peculiar to it, of which some individuals 
only are continued in the next period all these relations rest upon incon- 
trovertible facts, and are perfectly irreconcilable with the idea of a personal 
almighty creative power, which could not have adopted such a slow and gradua 
labour, and have rendered itself dependent upon the natural phases of the 
development of the earth, (pp. 84, 85.) 
He goes on in another passage, in which he quotes Lmna3us, 
just as Mr. Darwin does : — 
The work of nature, with its half-accidental, half-necessary products, has, 
on the contrary, been infinitely slow, gradual, and not premeditated. We 
nowhere perceive in this work an origin indicative of a personal will. 
« Nature,” said Linnceus, “ performs nothing per saltum ; ” and, indeed, every 
new discovery in natural history confirms this axiom. The plant passes 
imperceptibly into the animal, the animal into man. All endeavours to fix 
the limits between vegetable and animal life have hitherto tailed ; nor is 
there any existing insurmountable barrier between man and animal, of which 
we hear so much. (p. 85.) 
This reasoning certainly makes Darwinism harmonious with 
itself; but it also brings it into discord with nature and with 
even the conception of Deity. 
But now I come to the inquiry, is Darwinism consistent / 
Here Mr. Warington rests as a kind of proof upon what Lord 
Bacon has pointed out as being the very A B 0 of theorizing. 
Mr. Warington thinks it the severest possible test to require that 
a theory should apparently agree with the facts or phenomena 
it has been invented expressly to account for. Why, of course, 
it must do so, more or less, or how could any sane man have 
either invented it, or others entertain it for a moment ? And 
certainly, of all the theories ever propounded by man, Mr. 
Darwin's is the most consistently inconsistent and most 
variously adapted so as to account for almost everything. 
