Mr. Mivart on Darwinism. 37 



that here is " a change of front in face of the 

 enemy ! " 



Further twisting is caused by unintelligent 

 study of the subject criticised. Mr. Mivart, for 

 example, attributes to the evolutionists the opin- 

 ion that " virtue and pleasure are synonymous, 

 for in root and origin they are identical." This 

 misrepresentation arises from imperfect apprehen- 

 sion of the fact that, according to the doctrine of 

 evolution, differences in kind result from the ac- 

 cumulation of differences in degree. One might 

 as well say that evolutionists consider the work- 

 ings of Newton's genius to be identical with re- 

 flex action, since in its root and origin all mental 

 activity was a kind of reflex action. Nay, one 

 might as well say that evolutionists consider a 

 man indistinguishable from a cuttle-fish, since in 

 their root and origin the vertebrate and mollus- 

 can types have been proved by Kovalevsky to be 

 identical. 



For the rest, Mr. Mivart evinces frequent want 

 of sagacity as to the really vital points of the case 

 in which he appears as an advocate. He takes 

 great pains to show that some savage races have 

 degenerated in civilization, and also that the in- 

 tellectual difference between the lowest men and 

 the highest apes far exceeds the structural differ- 



