WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT. 69 



variety of the turnip is tending to become man." It is 



not true that evolutionists expect to find, as Dr. Seelye 



has affirmed, " the growth of the highest 



Humanity not ^jg^ -^^^^ ^ zoophyte, a phenomenon for 



^5°^ ° which sharp eyes have sought, and which 



evolution. ^ -^ . . 



is not only natural but inevitable on the 



Darwinian hypothesis, and whose discovery would make 



the fame of any observer." 



It is no wonder that a clear thinker should have re- 

 jected " the Darwinian hypothesis" when stated in such 

 terms as this. The line of junction in evolution is al- 

 ways at the bottom. It is the lowest mammals which 

 approach the lowest reptiles ; it is the lower types of 

 plants which approach the lower types of animals; it 

 would be the lowest alga, to use Dr. Seelye's illustration, 

 which would be transmutable into the lowest zoophyte ; 

 it is the unspecialized, undifferentiated type from which 

 branches diverge in different ways. Humanity is not 

 the " goal of evolution," not even that of human evolu- 

 tion. There will be no second "creation of man" ex- 

 cept from man's own loins. There will not be a second 

 Anglo-Saxon race unless it has the old Anglo-Saxon 

 blood in its veins. 



Adaptation by divergence — for the most part by slow 



stages — is the movement of evolution. While occasional 



leaps or sudden changes occur in the 



Change by slow ^^ggg^ ^^ ^^^ ^ no means the rule. 



divergence. ^ r ,, ^ 1 ■ >, 



In most cases of " saltatory evolution 



the suddenness is in appearance only. It comes from 

 our inability to trace the intermediate stages. When an 

 epoch-making character is acquired, as the wings of a 

 bird or the brain of man, the process of readjustment 

 of other characters goes on with greatly increased 

 rapidity. But this rapidity of evolution is along the 

 same lines as the slower processes. Radical changes 



