34 De Vi Physica 



Geologists who were busy explaining all 

 geological phenomena by accumulated in- 

 crement received ' Natural Selection ' into 

 their bosoms as if it were, as indeed it was, 

 their own child. They saw, in the theory, 

 their own face in the glass. 



II. But further, Darwin presented his 

 theory mixed up and confounded with an- 

 other, which has nothing whatever in com- 

 mon with it, and was not originated by him. 

 This is, the hypothesis of a filiation in or- 

 ganic forms, the theory that the later arose 

 out of the earlier by natural descent. This 

 theory, an inevitable deduction from the 

 broad facts of geology k , is in a manner ren- 

 dered compulsory by the resemblance of 

 earlier to later forms, closer in proportion 

 to their approximation in time: and was 



k It is quite impossible for any one not blinded by pre- 

 conceived theories to consider the large facts of geology 

 without having the theory forced upon his mind. 



