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saltum — Organs 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872
saltum—Organs 1866

importance — Organs 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872
importance—Organs 1866

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having 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869
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animal with wholly different 1859 1860 1861 1866
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structure and habits? 1869
habits? 1859 1860 1861 1866
habits and structure? 1872

CHAPTER VI.
DIFFICULTIES
ON
OF THE
THEORY.
Difficulties
on
of
the theory of descent with modification — Transitions — Absence or rarity of transitional varieties — Transitions in habits of life — Diversified habits in the same species — Species with habits widely different from those of their allies — Organs of extreme perfection — Modes of transition — Cases of difficulty — Natura non facit saltum — Organs of small importance — Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect — The law of Unity of Type and of the Conditions of Existence embraced by the theory of Natural Selection.
LONG before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to
him.
the reader.
Some of them are so
grave
serious
that to this day I can
never
hardly
reflect on them without being staggered; but, to the best of my judgment, the
greater
greater
number are only apparent, and those that are real are
greater not,
not,
I think, fatal to
the
my
theory.
These difficulties and objections may be classed under the following
heads:— Firstly,
heads:—Firstly,
heads:— First,
heads:—First,
why, if species have descended from other species by
insensibly
insensibly
fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in
confusion
confusion,
instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?
Secondly, is it possible that an animal having, for instance, the structure and habits of a bat, could have been formed by the modification of some animal with widely-different structure and habits? Can we believe that natural selection could produce, on the one hand,
an organ
organs
of trifling importance, such as the tail of a giraffe, which serves as a fly-flapper, and, on the other hand,