et Imbecillitate Darwiniana. \ 7 



" sketch of the new theory, Lyell was so 

 " overcome with delight, that he danced 

 " about and threw himself into the wildest 

 " contortions, as was his manner when ex- 

 " cessively pleased d ." A most interesting 

 geological phenomenon ! Lyell eagerly em- 

 braces the theories of Darwin, just as Dar- 

 win did his, neither of them perceiving the 

 scientific illegitimacy of purely gratuitous 

 hypothesis : of which more anon. 



The step that Darwin took, in further 

 extension of Lyellian principles, a step that 

 covered him with glory, though it ought to 

 have covered him with ridicule, was this. 



If, with Lyell, and his school, we elect to 

 explain the 'rocks' by accumulated minute 

 increments, then there remain over, as anom- 

 alies in the scheme, the fauna and flora. 

 How, now, as to them ? It would manifestly 



d Judd : Introduction to Darwin's Coral Reefs. (See 

 Appendix to this book.) 



