He has brought home the mummies of cats, ibises, birds of prey, dogs, crocodiles, and the head of a bull.

After the most attentive and detailed examination, not the smallest difference is to be perceived between these animals and those of the same species which we now see, any more than between human mummies and skeletons of men of the present day."[17] There is then not the first fact, or appearance of a fact, to be adduced in proof of the change of species either by domestication, or Natural Selection, or any other process known to man.

That any such evolution of any animal, or plant, into one of another species ever occurred, is a mere empty notion, in support of which no facts can be adduced.

All the animals and plants of which we know anything have remained unchanged since the beginning of man's observation of them.

The theory endeavors to account for a change which never happened.