DARWIN'S EXAMPLES. 



THE most formidable cases brought forward by 

 Mr. Spencer are from Darwin. I shall endeavour 

 to show, however, that Darwin was probably wrong 

 in retaining the older explanation of these facts, 

 and that the remains of the Lamarckian theory of 

 use-inheritance need not any longer encumber 

 the great explanation which has superseded that 

 fallacious and unproven theory and has rendered 

 it totally unnecessary. Meanwhile I think it is an 

 excellent sign that Mr. Spencer has to complain 

 that t4 Nowadays most naturalists are more Dar- 

 winian than Mr. Darwin himself" inasmuch as 

 they are inclined to say that there is "no proof" 

 that the effects of use and disuse are inherited. 



