An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . o the purposes of existence. Now, Mr. St. Greorge Mivart has conclusivelyproved that this designed structure in the marsupialscould not have been produced by ^ natural so, there is an end of Mr. Darwins line of humandevelopment, or as he would call it, evolution; forone o-ood case a2:ainst ^ natural selection strikes at theroot of the hypothesis as a whole. Let us hear Georo-e Mivart in his own words :— ^ Now, on the Darwinian hypothesis either all mam-mals descended from marsupial progenitors, or else themarsupials
An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . o the purposes of existence. Now, Mr. St. Greorge Mivart has conclusivelyproved that this designed structure in the marsupialscould not have been produced by ^ natural so, there is an end of Mr. Darwins line of humandevelopment, or as he would call it, evolution; forone o-ood case a2:ainst ^ natural selection strikes at theroot of the hypothesis as a whole. Let us hear Georo-e Mivart in his own words :— ^ Now, on the Darwinian hypothesis either all mam-mals descended from marsupial progenitors, or else themarsupials sprung from animals having, in most re-spects, the ordinary mammalian structure. ^ On the first alternative how did natural selec-tion remove this (at least perfectly innocent andharmless) structure in almost all other mammals; and, KANGAROO. 323 having done so, again reproduce it, in precisely thoseforms which alone require it, viz. the cetacea ? Thatsuch a harmless structure need not be removed, anyDarwinian must confess, since a structure exists in. Fig. 11.— GiGANTEUS. The giant Kangaroo and its Skull, both the crocodiles and gavials, which enables the formerto breathe themselves while drowning the prey whichthey hold in their mouths. On Mr. Darwins hypo-thesis, it could only have been developed where useful,therefore not in gavials (!), which feed on fish, but T 2 324 FALLACIES OF DARWINISM. which retain, as we might expect, this, in them, super-fluous but harmless formation. ^ On the second alternative, how did the elongatedlarynx itself arise, seeing that if its developmentlao-o-ed behind that of the maternal structure, theyoung primeval kangaroo must be choked: whilewithout the injecting power in the mother, it must bestarved ? The struggle, by the sole action of whichsuch a form was developed, must indeed have been severe!* Leaving this difficulty and the thousand otherswhich it suggests to be settled by Mr. Darwin and hisfollowers, we are carried on the
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