Romanes follows suit. 117 



And, notwithstanding the extraordinary reputation 

 accorded to Mr. Darwin, for patient observation and 

 persistence, and his independence of all authority, 

 here we find him, implicitly foUow^ed, too, by Mr. 

 Romanes, most meekly accepting Jenner's endeav- 

 ours to force the facts to fit his theory ; and neither 

 one nor the other of our great geniuses of evolution 

 think for a moment of waiting a year or two, and 

 quietly going to look for themselves. No, they prefer 

 to accept Jenner's version, and to theorise, and dog- 

 matise, and say " it may be," and " probably it was," 

 etc., etc., instead of using their much vaunted observ- 

 ing faculties, and just for a little while going to look 

 and see for themselves. 



Just compare all this Jennerised theory and argu- 

 ment about the cuckoo, both on Mr. Darwin's and 

 Mr. Romanes' parts, with the excellent result of ob- 

 servations close and careful of Mr. Romanes and his 

 sister on the Cehus, in Animal Intelligence, pp. 484 — 

 498, where due and careful observation of the creature 

 was directly and patiently made ; though, of course, 

 one disadvantage is still involved in observation under 

 such circumstances, that the creature is isolated and 

 in artificial conditions. But you cannot bring a 

 cuckoo into your house, and get it to live with you, 

 as you can do with the Cehus, and therein lies the 

 mighty difference, — ^just as certain deer the artist can 

 get into his studio, and can there paint from them ; 

 but others, that he sometimes very much wants to 

 paint, he cannot get brought to him in this way, and 

 hence some of the most notable blunders.''' 



* See Lord Southesk's Britain s Art Paradise, which contains 

 a list of some natural history errors in Academy exhibitions. 



