et Imbecillitate Danviniana. 59 



exemplifications, then there is an end of 

 gradation, actual or possible : then comes 

 a blank and a gap : and necessarily : for a 

 jump was then obligatory, and it must have 

 taken place. There is no passage from 

 organisation on one principle to organisation 

 on another by degrees. Nature cannot do 

 it : she must jump : ergo, she does. NATVRA 

 FACIT SALTVS. Darwin denies it : for it 

 would destroy his theory : but he is obliged 

 forcibly to shut his eyes to facts adduced by 

 himself. Moreover, it is useless to deny it : 

 for whatever is, is : and what is impossible, 

 does not happen. 



And therefore, if we know, beyond all 

 possibility of denial, A. That jumps have 

 actually occurred, as Darwin knew himself. 

 B. That they must occur, Nature being im- 

 possible without them : which Darwin did 

 not understand : it is mere puerility to de- 

 nounce as miraculous that which is nattiral,. 



