...was the state of matters in 1859 ? Let us hear Mr. Darwin, •who may be trusted always to state tho case against himself as strongly as possible. " On...of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? We meet with no such evidence, and this is the most obvious and plausible of tho many objections which...

...numbers ; so that the intermediate varieties will, in the long run, be supplanted and exterminated. On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude...of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life ? We meet with no such evidence, and this is the most obvious and forcible of the many objections which...

...numbers ; so that the intermediate varieties will, in the long run, bo supplanted and exterminated. On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude...of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life ? We meet with no such evidence, and this is the most obvious and forcible of the many objections which...

...numbers; so that the intermediate varieties will, in the long run, be supplanted and exterminated. On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude...links? Why does not every collection of fossil remains affort] plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? Although geological research...

...numbers ; so that the intermediate varieties will, in the long run, be supplanted and exterminated. On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude...inhabitants of the world, and at each successive period betwcen the extinct and still older species, why is not every geological formation charged with such...

...the commencement and close of each formation pressed so hardly on my theory.' And, once more — ' Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford...of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life ? We meet with no such evidence, and this is the most obvious aud forcible of the many objections which...

...numbers ; so that the intermediate varieties would, in the long ruu, be supplanted and exterminated. On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude...plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the form* of life? Although geological research has undoubtedly revealed the former existence of many links,...

...with the process of development all a priori objections to the doctrine of biological evolution appear childish. Any one who has watched the gradual formation...of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life ? We meet with no such evidence, and this is the most obvious and plausible of the many objections...

...Tertiary epoch in 1859 with its present condition. M. Gaudry's researches on the fossils of Pikenni were published in 1868, those of Messrs. Leidy, Marsh,...of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life ? We meet with no such evidence, and this is the most obvious and plausible of the many objections...

...numbers ; so that the intermediate varieties will, in the long run, be supplanted and exterminated. " On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude...of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? We meet with no such evidence, and this is the most obvious and forcible of the many objections which...