THE DEADLOCK IN DARWINISM 



PART III 



Now let me return to the recent division of 

 biological opinion into two main streams 

 Lamarckism and Weismannism. Both Lam- 

 arckians and Weismannists, not to mention 

 mankind in general, admit that the better 

 adapted to its surroundings a living form may 

 be, the more likely it is to outbreed its com- 

 peers. The world at large, again, needs not 

 to be told that the normal course is not un- 

 frequently deflected through the fortunes of 

 war ; nevertheless, according to Lamarckians 

 and Erasmus - Darwinians, habitual effort, 

 guided by ever-growing intelligence that is 

 to say, by continued increase of power in the 

 matter of knowing our likes and dislikes 

 has been so much the main factor throughout 

 the course of organic development, that the 

 rest, though not lost sight of, may be allowed 



to go without saying. According, on the 



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