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in process of development, and was being pushed by the famous 

 zoologists Owen and Mivart. It must be admitted that against 

 the psychological appeal of "Darwinism" it had no chance, but 

 at the same time, there was even then much truth underlying it, 

 and as time has gone on people are becoming more and more 

 inclined to think that in some respects at any rate it will give a 

 closer approach to the truth than will selection, the absolute need 

 for which as a support for evolution has now passed by. Special 

 creation went too far in one direction, natural selection in the 

 other, and differentiation may be called a kind of compromise. 



