et Imbecillitatc Darwinian a. 43 



truth, all the essential facts of geology, and 

 their evolutionary significance, were known 

 and proclaimed, before the Origin of Species 

 had ever seen daylight. Darwin is ridi- 

 culously and most unjustly credited with 

 the ideas and discoveries of other men 

 (some of which he did not even understand), 

 and made the intellectual fons et origo of 

 a movement, which was not due to him, 

 which he did not cause, but only exem- 

 plified, and which would have come about 

 as it did, even if he had never been born. 

 Against this immolation of other men's re- 

 putations on Darwin's altar, it is high time 

 to protest. 



VII. 



For what, in point of fact, does the world 

 owe to Darwin ? It was long ago said by 

 Bruno, that Aristotle owed more to the Uni- 



