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risen. ' Natural Selection ' made his fortune 

 and raised him to the skies, and by t it he 

 stood or fell. But in the sixth edition of 

 his Origin, he says : " As my conclusions 

 " have lately been much misrepresented, and 

 " it has been . stated that I attribute the 

 " modification of species exclusively to Na- 

 "tural Selection, I may be permitted to 

 " remark, that in the first edition of this 

 " work, and subsequently, I placed in a 

 " most conspicuous position, namely, at the 

 " close of the Introduction, the following 

 " words: I am convinced that Natural Se- 

 " lection has been the main, but not the 

 " exclusive means of modification. This has 

 " been of no avail. Great is the power of 

 " steady misrepresentation, but the history 

 " of science shows that fortunately this power 

 " does not long endure." 



It is a thousand pities that criticism could 

 not induce Darwin to reflect a little on the 



