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Title: Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student (microform) : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources
Identifier: cihm_49136 (find matches)
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bovell, James, 1817-1880
Subjects: Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle
Publisher: (Toronto? : s. n. )
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434 The giraffe shews a new light on the original physical characters of northern India ; for whatever may be urged in regard to the possible range of its vegetable food, it is very clear that like the existing species, it must have inhabited an open country, and had broad plains to roam over. In a densely forest- clad tract like that which now skirts the foot of the Himalayas, it would soon have been exterminated by the large feline ferae, by the hyaenas and large predaceous bears which are known to have been members of the old Sewalik fauna. We desire, in analysing these several facts, to shew that they do not warrant the assertion of Mr. Miller, and those who abandon the Mosaic history on evidence which they would consider insufficient in any other case. In language which does infinite honour both to their hearts and heads, Messrs. Owen and Agassizhave clearly brought out that most glorious law in natural history, which completely establishes what the latter philosopher has rightly named—the prophetic constitution of animals—a law which plainly declares the object of creation, as well as the unity of design. We clearly see that in '.ach suc- ceeding epoch, as the great plan became more and more pronounced, the animals and plants became more and more closely related, as well as more largely particularised. In a paper by Mr. A. R. Wallace, in the Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, No. 121, A.D., 1858, we have a clear enunciation of this law,

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