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Relations of affinity are those directly due to consanguinity, (& remotely to similarity of conditions??) relations of analogy are remotely due to consanguinity (in such cases as dragon-fly & goat sucker &c perhaps not at all) & chiefly to similarity of conditions.— This solves the problem, & agrees with Charlesworth Mag. May 1840 Stricklands notion of "system of nature" being the foundation of the differences in 2 kinds of relation.—

State according to my theory there must be three kinds of relation — then see whether there are.— Lamarck gives my whole theory.— My theory does not explain such resemblances, as snout of rat & woodcock — small eye of pig & humming Bird!!! Ø

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How came Natural System to be discovered? Was it not same sense by which one knows family-likeness — in this sense Linnaeus was right, when he called it a latent instinct

With this explain Waterhouse's fact of carabidous-looking Heteromerous insect & vice versâ. ⎯