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only have survived which were adapted, in 

 some manner, to the conditions of the medium 

 in which they were placed." (p. 30) This is 

 very clumsy. No wonder Buchner preferred 

 Darwin's method. The two systems are, in- 

 deed, exactly the same, but Mr. Darwin has a 

 much more winning way of presenting it. 



Professor Janet does not seem to have much 

 objection to the doctrine of evolution in itself; 

 it is the denial of teleology that he regards as 

 the fatal element of Mr. Darwin's theory. "Ac- 

 cording to us," he says, " the true stumbling- 

 block of Mr. Darwin's theory, the perilous and 

 slippery point, is the passage from artificial to 

 natural selection ; it is when he wants to estab- 

 lish that a blind and designless nature has been 

 able to obtain, by the occurrence of circum- 

 stances, the same results which man obtains by 

 thoughtful and well calculated industry." (p. 

 174) 



Towards the end of his volume he says : 

 " We shall conclude by a general observation. 

 Notwithstanding the numerous objections we 

 have raised against Mr. Darwin's theory, we do 

 not declare ourselves hostile to a system of 

 which zoologists are the only competent judges. 

 We are neither for nor against the transmu- 



