i. DAP W1NISM COMPLETE AND INCOMPLETE. 



DARWINISM," the title of the delightful 

 book which Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace 

 published in 1889, is a splendid proof of an 

 absence of jealousy not too common, even in 

 scientific minds ; but it is also an express de- 

 claration of what Mr. Wallace understands by 

 the evolution theory. Mr. Wallace is more 

 " Darwinian ' than Darwin himself. Darwin 

 put forward " natural selection " as only one 

 anions the factors of organic evolution : he did 

 not attempt to set aside the old Lamarckian 

 theory of the hereditary transmission of the 

 effects of use and disuse, although natural 

 selection was his own discovery a discovery 

 made independently by himself and by Mr. 

 Wallace. It has been lately said by Professor 

 Patrick Geddes, 1 that there is at the present 

 time " a growing tendency to limit the impor- 



1 Evolution of Sex, p. 304. 

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