et Imbecillitate Darwiniana. 



words, how do the parts of animals, and 

 the entire animals, which are combinations 

 of parts, come to be ? A question which 

 Aristotle was the first to raise, and scien- 

 tifically seek to answer. 



The experience of Aristotle was limited. 

 And yet, in endeavouring to answer the 

 question in modern times, some eminent 

 philosophers, far better furnished than he 

 was with data, compare most unfavourably 

 with that old sagacious inquisitor in judg- 

 ment and the power of analysis. With the 

 animals of the whole world ranged before 

 them, they totally ignore the obvious and 

 necessary significance of many of the most 

 familiar organisations, as he was careful not 

 to do. A necessary deduction from even a 

 few facts cannot be upset by no matter how 

 many more. Nay, even a single fact will 

 sometimes furnish Archimedes with a lever 

 wherewith to move the world. The moon 



