30 THE CASE AGAINST EVOLUTION 



Darwin's fame should stand or fall. Therefore, since Darwin 

 erred in making it "the most important means of modifica- 

 ion," Darwinism is dead, and no grief of mourners can re- 

 suscitate the corpse. "Through the last fifty years," says 

 Bateson, "this theme of the natural selection of favored races 

 has been developed and expounded in writings innumerable. 

 Favored races certainly can replace others. The argument 

 is sound, but we are doubtful of its value. For us that debate 

 stands adjourned. We go to Darwin for his incomparable 

 collection of facts. We would fain emulate his scholarship, 

 his width, and his power of exposition, but to us he speaks 

 no more with philosophical authority. We read his scheme of 

 evolution as we would those of Lucretius or of Lamarck, de- 

 lighting in their simplicity and their courage." (Heredity, 

 Presid. Add. to British Assoc, for Advanc. of Science, Smith. 

 Inst. Rpt. for 1915, p. 365.) 



