et Imbecillitate Darwinian** 



otherwise we should fall into serious error. 

 As, for example, the continuous successive 

 accumulation of minute grains of sand, one 

 by one, will and must, given only time 

 enough, ultimately form, and so account for, 

 a pyramid, mound, or layer of sand. Here 

 is a case of the power of accumulated incre- 

 ment. But no successive accumulation of 

 minute forces, no matter how long continued, 

 would or could ever elevate, and thus scien- 

 tifically explain the elevation of, an enormous 

 mass of matter, requiring for its elevation the 

 instantaneous application of an adequately 

 powerful force. Let the fly try every day 

 to raise the elephant, it will never do it. 

 Accumulation here is powerless, and con- 

 tinuity, impotent. And so, generally, though 

 the principle of explanation by continuous 

 accumulation is potent in cases where it 

 applies, yet in Nature, there are distinctions : 

 quantity is not everything : some things can, 



