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an- most compel. -nt. To use a familar proverb, the weak- 

 ill. But the triumphant fraction again 

 .m'lion. transmitting tin- ijuali 1 



[tin:; tin-in in dit r 



degrees. The struggle for food a^ain supei -veiies, and those 

 to whom the favoiaMe 'jiiality DAI been transmitted in 



.\\ triuni|)h as IM-: 



It is easy to see that we have here the addition of incre- 

 favorable to tin- individual, still more rigorously 

 1 out than in the case of domestication; fur not only 

 are unfavorable specimens not selected by nature, but they 

 arc destroyed. This is what Mr. Darwin calls Natural 

 Select iich acts by the preservation and accumula- 



tion of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the 

 preserved being. With this idea he interpenetrates and 

 is the vast store of facts that he and others have col- 

 lected. We cannot, without shutting our eyes through 

 r prejudice, fail to see that Darwin is here dealing, 

 not with imaginary, but with true causes; nor can we fail 

 to discern what vast modifications may be produced by 

 natural selection in periods sufficiently long. Each indi- 

 vidual increment may resemble what mathematicians call a 

 differential " (;i quantity indefinitely small); butdefinite 

 and jivat changes may obviously be produced by the inte- 

 gration of these infinitesimal quantities, through practically 

 infinite time. 



If Darwin, like Bruno, rejects the notion of creative 



power, acting after human fashion, it certainly is not be- 



he is unacquainted with the numberless exquisite 



adaptations on which this notion of a supernatural Artificer 



>een founded. His book is a repository of the most 



startling facts of this description. Take the marvelous 



observation which he cites from Dr. Kruger, where a bucket, 



with an aperture serving :i . s ;t spout, is formed in an orchid. 



Bees visit the flower: in eager search of material for their 



, they push each other into the bucket, the drenched 



escaping from their involuntary bath by the spout. 



they rub their backs against the vi-cid stigma of the 



r and obtain glue; then against the pollen-masses, 



which are thus stuck to the back <>f the bee and carried 



away. " When the bee, so provided. Hies to another flower 



or to the same flower a second time, and is pushed by its 



comrades into the bucket, and then crawls out by the 



