Chapter XV

OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION CONSIDERED.

Misrepresentations corrected 310

Lapse of Time and Extent of Area 311

Why the Higher Forms have not supplanted the Lower 313

The Amount of Life must have a Limit 316

The Broken Branches of the Tree of Life 317

Why we do not find Transitional Forms 319

How could the Transitional Form have subsisted? 322

Why Nature takes no Sudden Leaps 323

Imperfect Contrivances of Nature accounted for 324

Instincts as a Difficulty 325

Some Instincts acquired and some lost 327

Innumerable Links necessarily lost 329

Plenty of Time for the Necessary Gradations 331

Wide Intervals of Time between the Geological Formations 334

Sudden Appearance of Groups of Allied Species 336

How little we know of Former Inhabitants of the World 337

The Extinction of Species involved in Mystery 338

Dead Links between Living Species 340

Living Descendants of Fossil Species 342

Unnecessary to explain the Cause of each Individual Difference 343

“Face to Face with an Insoluble Difficulty” 344

Why distasteful? 346

“Accords better with what we know of the Creator’s Laws” 347

The Grandeur of this View of Life 348

Not incompatible with the Belief in Immortality 349

DARWINISM

STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF.