164 Outlook to Nature 



The observed behavior of plants and ani- 

 mals under domestication. 



The processes. 



While these various categories of facts and 

 evidence force the conclusion that there 

 has been and is evolution, they are not ex- 

 planations of its process. The philosophy 

 of the mechanism of evolution has been the 

 subject of the past-century inquiries, headed 

 by Lamarck and Darwin ; and in follow- 

 ing the details of this speculative natural 

 history one obtains the clearest and most 

 personal conception of the continuing creation. 



Evolution in operation. 



But there is really little dispute among 

 biologists as to the fact of evolution The 

 controversy turns on the means v of evolu- 

 tion the processes by which it has come 

 about. Yet the reader asks to see the pro- 

 cess actually going on. I wish he could have 

 seen my strawberries ; but, then, he would 

 not have believed his eyes if he had seen. 



