Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern".

  • Suckling, Horatio John
Date:
1888
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Credit: Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    good of its kind.” The truth of these propositi- ons, I think cannot be disputed, [p. 404 ed. 1878.] If the second proposition was as evident, as Mr. Darwin thinks, there would be an end of the controversy, as it is the mainstay of his whole theory: but it must be pointed out—firstly, that although the variation of complex organisms might lead to a gradual perfection, there is no scope for a similar modification in the lowest forms; so that his propositions do not explain how they have been perfected ? Is it possible the higher animals have been created on a diff- erent principle from the lowest? It is evident they cannot have passed through innumerable stages of development—yet many of them, as Mr. Darwin says, “are wonderfully and beauti- fully organised.’’[vide ch.xx.] The shell of a foraminefera, is very complex. It is divided into a number of chambers, rese- mbling a nautilus shell, the highest of molluscs, although inhabited by a being, the simplest in nature, mere jelly-like substance; and is formed by an immutable chemical process, that could
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