THE DEADLOCK IN DARWINISM 1 



PART I 



IT will be readily admitted that of all living 

 writers Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace is the one 

 the peculiar turn of whose mind best fits him 

 to write on the subject of natural selection, or 

 the accumulation of fortunate but accidental 

 variations through descent and the struggle 

 for existence. His mind in all its more essen- 

 tial characteristics closely resembles that of 

 the late Mr. Charles Darwin himself, and it 

 is no doubt due to this fact that he and Mr. 

 Darwin elaborated their famous theory at the 

 same time, and independently of one another. 

 I shall have occasion in the course of the fol- 

 lowing article to show how misled and mislead- 

 ing both these distinguished men have been, 

 in spite of their unquestionable familiarity 

 with the whole range of animal and vegetable 



1 Published in the Universal Review, April, May, and June 

 1890. 



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