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The variety-making force has been at work with such energy perhaps we ought to say, has had so much time for its development that almost every isolated rock within gun-shot of the shores has its peculiar living forms, or those very marked races to which Mr. Lowe, in his excellent description of the fauna, has given the name of "sub-species."
The inventive power which coins new words or modifies old ones, and adapts them to new wants and conditions as often as these arise, answers to the variety-making power in the animate creation. Progressive improvement in language is a necessary consequence of the progress of the human mind from one generation to another.
I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision." If he hopes finally to solve his great problem, it is by careful experiments in pigeon-fancying, and other sorts of artificial variety-making.
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