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to Chambers, the geological record, the stone- 

 book, as he called it, exhibits a continuous 

 rise, a ladder-like ascent, a constant gain in 

 organisation : and so in fact it does. But Dar- 

 win's theory, so far from harmonising with 

 geology, is at variance with it: a difficulty 

 which Darwin, more Darwiniano, surmounts, 

 by cutting his geology to suit his theory. The 

 geological series exhihits great gaps in con- 

 tinuity : but it is essential to Darwin that 

 there should be no gaps: therefore he fills 

 up the gaps by imaginary chains of fictitious 

 beings that never had or could have had 

 any existence : exactly as the old Pytha- 

 goreans invented an avTi^B^v to make up 

 the complement of their Ten Bodies. This 

 is the ' science ' that enabled Darwin to 

 eclipse Chambers. 



The Vestiges will always remain, what it 



And it must do so : see below, VIII. 



