et Imbecillitate Darwiniana. 65 



this disease, but the extirpation of the bacil- 

 lus > the exposure of the Darwinian myth. 



So far from solving the problem of the 

 origin of species, Darwin did not even cor- 

 rectly approach it. He came to it, by 

 reason of a want of philosophical education, 

 and a deficiency in logical power, with two 

 fundamental misconceptions, which futilised 

 all his endeavours beforehand. He was wrong 

 a priori in two points : I. The conditions of 

 the process of origination. II. The essence 

 of Nature, the organic power which does 

 the work. 



I. Darwin was a Lyellian, and was there- 

 fore, like all Lyellians, doomed to failure 

 in his geological solutions by reason of a 

 radical error in his conception of geological 

 time. Lyell conceived time as two parallel 

 lines, along which, however far you might 

 go back, you never got any nearer to the 

 beginning: thus the present was but the 

 



