The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'If we suppose the creation has been at all by Law'. CUL-DAR205.3.191 edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by John van Wyhe, corrections by Christine Chua 2014-2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.3 contains notes on distribution of animals.

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If we suppose the creation has been at all by Law, then we can hardly believe (ignorant as we are of conditions), that that there has been double creation: look at similarity of C Good Hope & Australia, C de Verde, Galapagos &c. Hardly anything in common. Yet shall we say that [Britain?] 30 plants European plants are due to the same physical conditions. (N.B I must suppose similar physical conditions to allow of their living); there is no scale of similarity of conditions, & nature of inhabitants. It may be said

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the Kerguelen Land & T. del Fuego has several much of its species in common, but if so why not islds in the Atlantic not one in common.—

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)