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tenacity with which Darwinians stick to their 

 accumulation of fortuitous variations is on 

 a par with the like tenacity shown by the 

 illustrious Cuvier, who did his best to crush 

 evolution altogether. It always has been 

 thus, and always will be; nor is it desirable 

 in the interests of Truth herself that it should 

 be otherwise. Truth is like money lightly 

 come, lightly go ; and if she cannot hold her 

 own against even gross misrepresentation, she 

 is herself not worth holding. Misrepresenta- 

 tion in the long run makes Truth as much as 

 it mars her ; hence our law courts do not 

 think it desirable that pleaders should speak 

 their bond fide opinions, much less that they 

 should profess to do so. Rather let each side 

 hoodwink judge and jury as best it can, and 

 let truth flash out from collision of defence 

 and accusation. When either side will not 

 collide, it is an axiom of controversy that 

 it desires to prevent the truth from being 

 elicited. 



Let us now note the courses forced upon 

 biologists by the difficulties of Mr. Darwin's 



distinctive feature. Mr. Darwin and Mr. 



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