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tion, edging always more and more continually 

 towards the theory of his grandfather and 

 Lamarck. These facts convince me that he 

 was at no time a thorough-going Darwinian, 

 but was throughout an unconscious Lam- 

 arckian, though ever anxious to conceal 

 the fact alike from himself and from his 

 readers. 



Not so with Mr. Wallace, who was both 

 more outspoken in the first instance, and who 

 has persevered along the path of Wallaceism 

 just as Mr. Darwin with greater sagacity was 

 ever on the retreat from Darwinism. Mr. 

 Wallace's profounder faith led him in the 

 outset to place his theory in fuller daylight 

 than Mr. Darwin was inclined to do. Mr. 

 Darwin just waved Lamarck aside, and said 

 as little about him as he could, while in his 

 earlier editions Erasmus Darwin and Buffon 

 were not so much as named. Mr. Wallace, 

 on the contrary, at once raised the Lamarckian 

 spectre, and declared it exorcised. He said 

 the Lamarckian hypothesis was " quite un- 

 necessary." The giraffe did not "acquire its 



long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of 



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