Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
their cellular structure, their laws 
of growth, and their liability to in¬ 
jurious influences. ... If we look 
even to the two main divisions— 
namely, to the animal and vegetable 
kingdoms—certain low forms are 
so far intermediate in character 
that naturalists have disputed to 
which kingdom they should be re¬ 
ferred. . . . Therefore, on the princi¬ 
ple of natural selection with diver¬ 
gence of character, it does not seem 
incredible that, from some such low 
and intermediate form, both ani¬ 
mals and plants may have been 
developed, and, if we admit this, 
we must likewise admit that all the 
organic beings which have lived on 
this earth may be descended from 
some one primordial form. ’ ? (“ Ori¬ 
gin of Species/’ p. 500.) 
But Alfred Russell Wallace made 
a full and frank admission of this 
abysmal break in the operation of 
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