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variations, if he copied Nature, and allowed 

 all his animals to mix freely together, by 

 which all incipient variations would be, as 

 they actually are in Nature, obliterated 

 in the germ. They never get any further, 

 in Nature, than the preliminary appearance. 

 And yet, he actually sees no harm, nothing 

 unscientific, in adducing artificial in proof 

 of 'Natural* Selection: in arguing, that 

 because man achieves cumulative results, by 

 carefully preventing Nature from having her 

 way, therefore her way and man's way are 

 the same ! And to this kind of logic the 

 world erects statues. 



VI. 



Yet this theory ; this explanation of facts 

 by figments, power by impotence, coexis- 

 tence by succession, Nature by impossibility ; 

 this theory, which is in reality a pure scienti- 



