8 All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 



the case of the eye is " more than enough to stagger any 



man. 



I believe that the American ostrich "is not yet perfect," 

 although I can give no proof whatever that it is in the 

 process of becoming so. 



I believe that the "most wonderful of all known 

 instincts," that of the hive bee, can be explained by me, 

 as a Darwinite, and the illogical way in which I have 

 accounted for it in my work on " The Origin of 

 Species" I believe to be a master-piece of reasoning, 

 though nine out of ten of its facts prove nothing whatever 

 by way of conclusion for it. 



I believe the safne in the case of the working of sterile 

 ants, though " how the workers have been made sterile is 

 a difficulty; " that is to say, in itself, but none whatever to 

 my more ''fertile" brain, which thinks nothing of any 

 difficulty that stands in its way. 



I believe that the difficulty, though '' appearing insuper- 

 able," -'disappears" by my imagining that selection may be 

 exercised by a whole " family " as well as by an 

 "individual." I choose to forget that families are made up 

 of individuals. 



