382 EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



many generations as yet unborn have come and gone. 

 There is nothing, however, to prevent man's becoming 

 as long lived as the oak if he will persevere for many 

 generations in the steps which can alone lead to this 

 result. Another interesting achievement which should 

 be more quickly attainable, though still not in our own 

 time, is the earlier maturity of those animals whose 

 rapid maturity is an advantage to us, but whose 

 longevity is not to our purpose. 



The question Evolution or Direct Creation of all 

 species? has been settled in favour of Evolution. A 

 hardly less interesting and important battle has now to 

 be fought over the question whether we are to accept 

 the evolution of the founders of the theory with the 

 adjuncts hinted at by Dr. Darwin and Mr. Matthew, and 

 insisted on, so far as I can gather, by Professor Hering and 

 myself or the evolution of Mr. Darwin, which denies 

 the purposiveness or teleology inherent in evolution as 

 first propounded. I am assured that such of my readers 

 as I can persuade to prefer the old evolution to the 

 new will have but little reason to regret their pre- 

 ference. 



P.S. As these sheets leave my hands, my attention 

 is called to a review of Professor Haeckel's ' Evolution 

 of Man/ by Mr. A. B. Wallace, in the * Academy ' for 

 April 12, 1879. " Professor Haeckel maintains," says 

 Mr. Wallace, " that the struggle for existence in nature 

 evolves new forms without design, just as the witt of man 

 produces new varieties in cultivation with design." I 



