Excerpt from Species Not Transmutable, Nor the Result of Secondary Causes: Being a Critical Examination of Mr. Darwin's Work Entitled Origin and Variation of Species The following pages were written some months ago, and their publication has been delayed by circumstances to which I need not further allude. I offer the book now to the consideration of the public With a perfect consciousness that it has many defects for Which I must claim indul gence. The subject is one of deep importance; much more so indeed than would appear to many, from a thoughtless perusal of the work criticised. I trust I have dealt With the book fairly. I entirely disclaim all personal feeling in the strong language I have sometimes felt bound to use. No one has derived greater pleasure than I have in past days from the study of Mr. Darwin's other Works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.