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carefully examined, 1 we may feel confident that 

 the belief in an evolution founded on large 

 mutations will vanish, and we shall then come 

 back to mutations identical in every respect with 

 the small variations which were for Darwin the 

 steps of evolution. 



A humorist has suggested that the Homer 

 controversy should be settled by a general agree- 

 ment that the Iliad was written not by Homer 

 but by another man with the same name. Those 

 who have heralded with such a flourish of trum- 

 pets the profound changes which they assume 

 to be necessary in the Darwinian conception of 

 evolution, may yet ' save their face ' by calling 

 the same thing by another name. 



1 Dr. Arthur W. Howe's researches on the fossils of the white 

 chalk are an admirable example. See the Quarterly Review (July, 

 1909), 19, 20. 



