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the greatest pains to cross the primrose.html">primrose and the cowslip, succeeded
fact that the primrose and the cowslip are only varieties of the same
established. The female of species A, if crossed with the male of
of A, she remains barren. Facts of this kind destroy the value of the
species, the investigator, contenting himself with the rough practical
in nature--to ascertain their relations to the conditions which
the bond of union of their parts and their past history, he finds
at most, the dimmest adumbration of a plan. If he starts with any one
cunningly adapted to some special use in its life. Has not his Paley
adjusted as so much packing between the other organs? And yet, at the
be given for one-half of the peculiarities of vegetable structure; he
the young calf and in those of the foetal whale; insects which never
wings; naturally blind creatures have rudimental eyes; and the halt
perfect form at once, but all have to start from the same point,
horses, and cats and dogs, lobsters and beetles, periwinkles and
existence under forms which are essentially undistinguishable; and this
beings march side by side along the high road of development.html">development, and
who all go down the aisle, but having reached the door some turn into
next parish. A man in his development runs for a little while parallel
travels for a space beside the fish, then journeys along with the bird
brief companionship with the highest of the four.html">four-footed and four-handed
the present day dreams of explaining these indubitable facts by the
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