He virtually admits the death or superannuation of Natural Selection, since it has retired from the business of species-making.
But when we go back to those old geologic ages, we find that species were then not only as distinct as now, but that the distinctions were even bolder and more visible.

Many of them have ceased to exist, but they have left their shells, their petrified casts, and their bones, by which we can see that they stood apart in well-defined groups, without any such blending and confusion as the evolution theory asserts.

Over three thousand species are already classified.

Between every two of them there ought to be, on Mr.Darwin's showing, a hundred intermediate variations at the least; and between some of the more widely separated forms there ought to be thousands of intermediate varieties; as for instance between the bear and the whale; and a still greater number between the mollusk with its external shell, and the vertebrate with its internal skeleton.

And we ought to find these intermediate forms closely connected with their parents and their children.