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Here again, unfortunately for the theory, it is found 
that ot the naked and exposed savage warrior has 
reached the more advantageous stage of arterial re-cession, 
but the clothed European, whose risks are far slighter, 
it is in him this protective advantage is found. 
Another instance of the failure of ‘xatural selection’ 
to ensure the ‘survival of the fittest’ is found in this, 
that whereas the Reindeer, endowed by its Creator with 
spreading hoofs to bear it over the snow survives; 
the wild horses of the Falkland Islands, descendants of 
the horses of Spain, wandering over interminable morasses, 
have by ‘variation’ developed for their survzval/ similar 
hoofs; but really to their gradual destruction through 
lameness; their power of variation has not served them, 
nor will save. 
The facts which our naturalists stumble upon in their 
researches antagonistic to evolution are frequently hint- 
ed at, but rarely produced in detail. The facts that are 
thought to tell are elaborately spread before us. 
There seem to be many horns to the dilemma which 
the theory of evolution has developed. 
Mr. W. E. Brooke speaking of the Redpoles (Linota) 
writes: “We hear a great deal about ‘intermediate forms’ 
said to bridge over certain species ; but it 1s a curious 
thing that I have not come across anything of the kind ; 
and I have worked among small birds as much as most 
men. The facts, men strongly imbued with Darwinian 
principles are not in a fit state of mind to distinguish one 
spectes from another ... species are not species with them, 
but evolved forms... fortunately they have not brought 
forward anything in the way of proof.” 
Naturalists of the first rank then are not as Professor 
Parker proclaims, ‘all Darwinian to a man.” 
The “state of mind” which Mr. W. E. Brooke one 
