6o love's meinie. 



similarly-minded creatures, when the feelings 

 that both show are evidently useless to one 

 of them, as if the inferior had changed into 

 the higher. The doctrine of development 

 seems at first to explain all so pleasantly, that 

 the scream of consent with which it has been 

 accepted by men of science, and the shriller 

 vociferation of the public's gregarious applause, 

 scarcely permit you the power of antagonist 

 reflection. I must justify to-day, in graver 

 tone than usual, the terms in which I have 

 hitherto spoken, — it may have been thought 

 with less than the due respect to my audience, 

 — of the popular theory. 



59. Supposing that the octohedrons of 

 galena, of gold, and of oxide of iron, were 

 endowed with powers of reproduction, and 

 perished at appointed dates of dissolution or 

 solution, you would without any doubt have 

 heard it by this time asserted that the 

 octohedric form, which was common to all, 

 indicated their descent from a common pro- 

 genitor; and it would have been ingeniously 

 explained to you how the angular offspring 

 of this eight-sided ancestor had developed 

 themselves, by force of circumstances, into their 



