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due to nothing but degeneration. That 

 element of prevision of, and provision 

 for, the future, which they choose to call 

 the supernatural, pursues them through 

 every step of their substituted fancies 

 and that, too, in the case of the Whales 

 in a more immanent degree. 



Mr. Spencer's tone, then, of remon- 

 strance against the hardness of our hearts 

 in being so slow to accept completely 

 the teachings of the Darwinian School 

 as an adequate explanation of the facts 

 of Nature, shows that he has not grasped 

 the difficulties which we feel to be in- 

 superable. He is quite right in saying 

 that even if the special theory of Darwin 

 be abandoned, there would still remain 

 to be dealt with what he calls the theory 

 of organic evolution. Yes, and if the 

 particular theory which he so calls be 

 given up, there will still remain another 

 theory which is equally entitled, and, we 



