HETEROGENES1S. 



her disciples occasionally forget the iron rules they 

 have laid down for others, and here, as in some other 

 instances, after asserting that as the first position is 

 proved, the second must be true, they just suggest that 

 if notproved to be true, it is at any rate capable of proof, 

 or if not actually provable just at this present time, i 

 sure to be proved to demonstration before very long ! 



Any objection to such remarks as these, which are 

 pronounced to be in harmony with the tendency of 

 modern thought, are accounted frivolous. But, fortu- 

 nately, or unfortunately, according to the stand-point 

 taken, every one does not feel able to accept these ar- 

 guments, and in spite of being considered foolish 

 enough to attempt to oppose the whole tendency of 

 modern thought, which is undoubtedly difficult, and 

 perhaps impossible, I must, nevertheless, venture to 

 remark that the doctrine of heterogenesis has not yet 

 been proved to be true as respects one single living 

 organism, and it is unfortunately the case that some of 

 the " facts " which have been adduced in its favour are 

 not facts at all, while of the " facts " some have been 

 misstated and many misinterpreted. 



He who does not accept the doctrine of the hour 

 is, in these days, in danger of being denounced as a 

 bigot, and stigmatized as orthodox because his 

 rejection of the physical and sensational is held to 

 prove him to be a bigoted believer in every antiquated 

 doctrine that has ever been demolished by the bright 

 light of research in the time that has passed,. He is 



