CONCLUDING REMARKS. 307 



Surely this is the most reasonable conclusion to arrive 

 at. Or that I have really found Lamarck's talisman, 

 which had been for some time lost sight of? 



Will the reader bid me wake with him to a world 

 of chance and blindness ? Or can I persuade him to 

 dream with me of a more living faith than either he or 

 I had as yet conceived as possible ? As I have said, 

 reason points remorselessly to an awakening, but faith 

 and hope still beckon to the dream. 



