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lies in a just appreciation of the importance of each 

 one of the principal ideas which must be present in 

 combination before we can have a correct conception of 

 evolution, and of their bearings upon one another. In 

 his scheme of evolution I find each part kept in due 

 subordination to the others, so that the whole theory 

 becomes more coherent and better articulated than I 

 have elsewhere found it ; but I do not detect any 

 important addition to the ideas which Dr. Darwin and 

 Lamarck had insisted upon. 



I pass over the ' Vestiges of Creation/ which should 

 be mentioned only as having, as Mr. Charles Darwin 

 truly says, " done excellent service in this country, in 

 calling attention to this subject, in removing prejudice, 

 and in thus preparing the ground for the reception of 

 analogous views." * The work neither made any addi- 

 tion to ideas which had been long familiar, nor arranged 

 old ones in a satisfactory manner. Such as it is, it is 

 Dr. Darwin and Lamarck, but Dr. Darwin and Lamarck 

 spoiled. The first edition appeared in 1844. 



I also pass over Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire's ' Natural 

 History,' which appeared 1854-62, and the position 

 of which is best described by calling it intermediate 

 between the one which Buffon thought fit to pretend 

 to take, and that actually taken by Lamarck. The 

 same may be said also of ^tienne Geoffroy. I will, 

 however, just touch upon these writers later on. 



A short notice, again, will suffice for the opinions of 

 Goethe, Treviranus, and Oken, none of whom can I dis- 

 cover as having originated any important new idea ; 

 * ' Origin of Species/ Hist. Sketch, xvii. 



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