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even by professional truth-seekers. I find no 

 rejoinder to it from Mr. Darwin himself, 

 between 1865 when it was first put forward, 

 and 1882 when Mr. Darwin died. It has 

 been similarly " ostrichised " by all the lead- 

 ing apologists of Darwinism, so far at least 

 as I have been able to observe, and I have 

 followed the matter closely for many years. 

 Mr. Spencer has repeated and amplified it in 

 his recent work, "The Factors of Organic 

 Evolution," but it still remains without so 

 much as an attempt at serious answer, for 

 the perfunctory and illusory remarks of Mr. 

 Wallace at the end of his " Darwinism " can- 

 not be counted as such. The best proof of its 

 irresistible weight is that Mr. Darwin, though 

 maintaining silence in respect to it, retreated 

 from his original position in the direction that 

 would most obviate Mr. Spencer's objection. 



Yet this objection has been repeatedly 

 urged by the more prominent anti-Charles- 

 Darwinian authorities, and there is no sign 

 that the British public is becoming less 

 rigorous in requiring people either to reply 



to objections repeatedly urged by men of 



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