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~ MR, DARWIN’S CRITICS ?# 
[1871] 
THE gradual lapse of time has now separated us by 5 
more than a decade from the date of the publi-— 
cation of the “ Origin of Species ”— and whatever — 
may be thought or said about Mr. Darwin’s doc- 3 
trines, or thé 3 manner in which he has propounded 
them, this much is certain, that, in a dozen years, 4 
the “ Origin of Species” has worked as complete a 
TE in biological science as the “¢ Principia” 
did in astronomy —and it it_has done so, because, in 
the words of Helmholtz, ad contains “ an essenti 
new creative thought.” ? 
And as time has slipped by, a happy change 
11. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. By 
A. R. Wallace. 1870.—2. The Genesis of Species. By St. George — 
Mivart, F.R.S. Second Edition. 1871.—3. Darwin’s Descent 
of Man. Quarterly Review, July 1871 
2 Helmholtz: Ueber das Ziel und die Fortschritte der Natur- H | 
wissenschaft. Eroffnungsrede fiir die Naturforscherversamm- 
lung zu Innsbruck. 1869. 
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