[63] 'But the time will, _before long_, come when it will be thought
wonderful that naturalists, who were well acquainted with the
comparative structure and development of man and other mammals, should
have believed that each was the work of a separate act of
creation.'--Vol. i. page 33.
[64] An evolutionist who reads these lines may, perhaps, exclaim,
'What, then, do you maintain that the frog, toad, newt, and green
tree-frog, were each the work of a separate creative act?' To which
question we reply, 'By no means; but, nevertheless, the minute
structure of the tissues does not permit the inference that these
creatures have community of descent.' It is very curious that Mr.
Darwin and many of his supporters seem to think that all men who do
not support evolution must believe in separate creations.
[65] 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' vol. xv., p. 433
(_Philosophical Magazine_, vol. xxxiv., 1867, p. 144); _Quarterly
Journal of Microscopical Science_, vol. ix., 1869, pp. 43 and 358;
_Monthly Microscopical Journal, vol. iii., 1870, p. 299; Quarterly
Journal of Science_, new ser., vol. i., 1870, p. 64.