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Mivart's objection if we were to attempt to account for the above resemblances, independently of 'natural selection, through mere fluctuating variability; but as the case stands, there is none."
But they must not write irreligious books on the subject. They must wait, in patience and meekness, until Mr. Mivart gives them satisfaction. Let us now summarise Mr. Mivart's position. Uni-versalism, or the final restitution of all men, he rejects as "utterly irreconcilable with Catholic doctrine."
Cum pulchris tunicis sumet nova consilia et spes. Horace. And look always that they be shape, What garment that thou shalt make Of him that can best do With all that pertaineth thereto. Romaunt of the Rose How well I can remember the feelings with which I entered London, and took possession of the apartments prepared for me at Mivart's.
If secondary causes cannot succeed at any one part of the chain, it is obvious that they fail as a universal explanation. This part of the work has already been done far better than I could do it. In the first eight chapters of Mivart's "Genesis of Species" the argument has been ably and clearly put, and whatever answer is possible has been given by Darwin and others; so that the world may judge.
Mivart's error is to suppose that your words favour the view of sudden departures, and I do not see that the expression he uses really favours his view a bit more than if he had quoted your exact words.
Another set of cases is the production of similar functional results by most diverse means, as in the case of flying animals, birds, pterodactyles, and bats; here there is a widely different modification of the fore-arm and other bones, all for the same purpose. The reader will do well to refer to Mr. Mivart's book on this subject.
When I returned to Mivart's, I found a written answer to my letter of the morning, stating that his lordship of the Horse Guards was leaving town that afternoon, but would not delay my departure for the continent, to visit which a four month's leave was granted me, with a recommendation to study at Weimar.
"God bless you, my dearest Henry. Fully expecting you, I have sent to engage your former rooms at Mivart's; do not let me be disappointed. "Yours, I read the above letter twice over, and felt my cheek glow and my heart swell as I passed the passage relative to Lord Dawton and the borough.
At length we reached London, and having been there safely installed at "Mivart's," I sallied forth to present my letter to the Horse Guards, and obtain our passport for the continent. "Number nine, Poland-street, sir" said the waiter, as I inquired the address of the French Consul.
Mivart's unhesitating declaration, I hastened to acquaint myself with such of the works of the great Catholic divine as bore upon the question, hoping, not merely to acquaint myself with the true teachings of the infallible Church, and free myself of an unjust prejudice; but, haply, to enable myself, at a pinch, to put some Protestant bibliolater to shame, by the bright example of Catholic freedom from the trammels of verbal inspiration.
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