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seed was sown or shoot planted, a grand revo- 

 lution was effected in nature, a revolution which 

 in all the previous ages of the earth's history 

 has had no parallel, for a being had arisen who 

 was no longer necessarily subject to change with 

 the changing universe, a being who was in some 

 degree superior to nature, inasmuch as he knew 

 how to control and regulate her action, and 

 could keep himself in harmony with her, not by 

 a change in body, but by an advance in mind." 



Against facts like these, of what avail are 

 Mr. Darwin's ingenious speculations ? The 

 answer may be given in the words of Professor 

 Mivart. It is the same high authority that 

 pronounced Mr. Darwin's " Origin of Species " 

 to be "a puerile hypothesis," and its distinc- 

 tive characteristic, "a conception utterly irra- 

 tional; " l who now adds, 



"Thus, then, in our judgment the author of 

 the ' Descent of Man ' has UTTERLY FAILED 

 in the only part of his work which is really 

 important : . . . and if Mr. Darwin's failure 

 should lead to an increase of philosophic culture 

 on the part of physicists, we may therein find 

 some consolation for the injurious effects which 

 his work is likely to produce on too many of 

 our half-educated classes." * 



1 "Lessons from Nature," p. 300. * Ibid., p. 184. 



