236 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [CHAP. IX. 



ception, a highly important and conspicuous fact, the 

 existence of which is fatal to -the theory of " Natural 

 Selection/' as put forward of late by Mr. Darwin and his 

 most ardent followers. It must be remarked, however, 

 that whatever force this fact may have against a belief 

 in the origination of man from brutes by minute, fortui- 

 tous variations, it has no force whatever against the 

 conception of the orderly evolution and successive mani- 

 festation of specific forms by ordinary natural law even 

 if we include amongst such the upright frame, the ready 

 hand and massive brain of man himself. 



