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2 called “The Origin of Species,” in which he tries to solve the mystery of Creation by the hypothesis, that all animals, and plants, have been gradually developed from a few primal forms, through a process he calls, “Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest,” founding his argument on the changes produced in animals, and plants, since their domestication with man. Mankind have not been exempted, and their descent from some of the ape family, thought to be quite evident.

So fascinating has this theory been to many people: Darwinism has become a creed: counting numerous enthusiastic votaries in every land; who hail it as a sort of revelation, the key that opens the mysterious portals of nature. They seem almost as delighted at