et Imbecillitate Darwiniana. 45 



tential and latent into the actual and appa- 

 rent : that realisation of the embryonic which 

 is the soul of Nature and the core of phi- 

 losophy, was discovered the greatest dis- 

 covery that was ever made by man by 

 ARISTOTLE : and Darwin, so far from dis- 

 covering it, never even seems to have 

 heard of it, does not understand it, and 

 contradicts it: his 'Natural Selection,' in- 

 stead of explaining the actual by the pos- 

 sible and potential, being a ridiculous en- 

 deavour to explain what is actual and 

 natural by what is impossible. This is 

 what that great anatomist, Owen, meant, 

 though he did not explain his meaning well, 

 in opposing Darwin, yet maintaining what 

 he called Derivation. According to Owen, 

 who was not wholly ignorant of animal or- 

 ganization, Darwin's theory was only fit to 

 be "foisted on poor working men " . it was, 

 that is to say, an Idol of the Market Place, 



