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“In the following remarks I shall not confine myself to the mere question of dispersal, but shall consider some other facts which bear upon the truth of the two theories of independent creation and of descent with modification” (p. 389). What can be plainer than that the theory which Mr. Darwin espouses, and has so frequently called “my,” is descent with modification?
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“But as these animals and their spawn are known to be immediately killed by sea-water, on my view, we can see that there would be great difficulty in their transportal across the sea, and therefore why they do not exist on any oceanic island. But why, on the theory of creation, they should not have been created there, it would be very difficult to explain” (p. 393).
“On my view” was cut out in 1869.
On the following page we read—“On my view this question can easily be answered.” “On my view” is retained in the latest edition.
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“Yet there must be, on my view, some unknown but highly efficient means for their transportation” (p. 397).
“On my view” became “according to our view” in 1869.
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