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first appeared, as fiercely as ( religion ' did. 

 The Vestiges aroused, in the scientific world, 

 first hostility, and then jealousy : for women 

 are far from monopolising that animal pas- 

 sion. The only difference is, that women 

 hate each other, for love : but men, for 

 fame. 



IV. What, then, do we owe to Darwin ? 

 What is Darwin's own? What is Darwinism? 

 ' Natural Selection ' : a scientific and philo- 

 sophical absurdity. Darwin laboured all his 

 life, with unwearied diligence, to accumulate 

 evidence in support of his theory : what that 

 evidence establishes is not what he meant 

 it to establish, but its contradictory opposite : 

 that Natura facit saltus. 



VIII. 



It has been said, and said very well in- 

 deed, of the * higher science' of Darwin's 



