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divided. Those who find Mr. Darwin's works 

 clear will also find no difficulty in under- 

 standing Mr. Wallace ; those, on the other 

 hand, who find Mr. Darwin puzzling are little 

 likely to be less puzzled by Mr. Wallace. 

 He continues : 



"The objections now made to Darwin's 

 theory apply solely to the particular means by 

 which the change of species has been brought 

 about, not to the fact of that change." 



But "Darwin's theory" as Mr. Wallace 

 has elsewhere proved that he understands 

 has no reference " to the fact of that change " 

 that is to say, to the fact that species have 

 been modified in course of descent from other 

 species. This is no more Mr. Darwin's theory 

 than it is the reader's or my own. Darwin's 

 theory is concerned only with " the particular 

 means by which the change of species has 

 been brought about " ; his contention being 

 that this is mainly due to the natural survival 

 of those individuals that have happened by 

 some accident to be born most favourably 

 adapted to their surroundings, or, in other 

 words, through accumulation in the common 



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