CHAPTER III 



CLUES AND SUGGESTIONS 



MR. HERBERT SPENCER'S rejection of any 

 necessity for the " enormous" time which 

 evolutionists have hitherto demanded, 

 and to which Lord Salisbury only 

 alluded as a well-known characteristic 

 of their theories, marks a new stage in 

 the whole controversy. Nobody had 

 made the demand more emphatically 

 than Mr. Spencer himself only a few 

 years ago. His confession now, and 

 his even elaborate defence of the idea 

 that the work of evolution may be a 

 work of great rapidity, goes some way 

 to bridge the space which divides the 



