The Broken Branches of the Tree of Life 317 Why we do not find Transitional Forms 319 How could the Transitional Form have subsisted? 322 Why Nature takes no Sudden Leaps 323 Imperfect Contrivances of Nature accounted for 324 Instincts as a Difficulty 325 Some Instincts acquired and some lost 327 Innumerable Links necessarily lost 329 Plenty of Time for the Necessary Gradations 331 Wide Intervals of Time between the Geological Formations 334 Sudden Appearance of Groups of Allied Species 336 How little we know of Former Inhabitants of the World 337 The Extinction of Species involved in Mystery 338 Dead Links between Living Species 340 Living Descendants of Fossil Species 342 Unnecessary to explain the Cause of each Individual Difference 343 “Face to Face with an Insoluble Difficulty” 344 Why distasteful? 346 “Accords better with what we know of the Creator’s Laws” 347 The Grandeur of this View of Life 348 Not incompatible with the Belief in Immortality 349 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. I. THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF PLANTS. [The Power of Movement in Plants, page 1.]