et Imbecillitate Darwiniana. 5 5 



exist apart, nor come into being successively, 

 otherwise than together. But to pass this 

 over : there is something more : something 

 that Darwin never saw : and yet it is a thing 

 so simple, that his failure to understand it, 

 his want of insight, here alone, involves his 

 credit as a thinker. 



Had he, ceasing for an instant his Sisy- 

 phean labour of everlastingly accumulating 

 superfluous or irrelevant facts, stopped to 

 THINK, a very little consideration might 

 have shown him, that the abrupt method 

 which he brands as miraculous and unnatural 

 is the ONLY way in which a new principle 

 of organisation can or could possibly be 

 introduced : the only possible way is the 

 way which, from a want of analysis, he 

 pronounces miraculous and throws aside. 

 For gradual transition from one thing to 

 another is possible, only when those two 

 things have a common principle : otherwise, 



