GO 



HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Mr. Wood does not pretend much to philosophy ; 

 rior do we think he has yet appreciated the many 

 su^^tive hints which the new school of thought is 

 silentiy working out. He is a simple narrator of 



outcry for "facts" among those who regard evolu- 

 tion as only another name for atheism, as the 

 Roman maiden demanded the brazen shields of 

 the soldiers. These people know not what to do 











Fig. 33. Eurytrachelus Titan. 



Fig. 34. Elephant Beetle (Megalosoma elephas). 



acts, as correctly as he can make them out. These 

 are undoubtedly important if well arranged and 

 thoroughly understood. There is a pretended 



with facts when they are put into possession of 

 them, and are borne down to the earth, and help- 

 lessly crushed beneath the overwhelming mass of 



