This Confirmed Habit, 195 



If not, the analogy fails, and fails wholly on the most 

 important point. 



This confirmed habit of "probably it was," "it 

 may be," " it might be," " it iiiust be," and so on, 

 with Darwin and his followers — the reading is always 

 of the subjective notion into the fact — is precisely 

 what gives Professor St. George Mivart his strong 

 points against the Darwinians, especially in his very 

 bold and original " Origin of Human Reason." 



