et Imbecillitate Darwiniana. 85 



that prove nothing at all. All the domes- 

 tic and artificial selection in the world is 

 utterly worthless to support a theory about 

 Nature which the nearest insect alone is 

 sufficient to destroy. 



X. 



The proper comprehension of the forego- 

 ing arguments places the origin of man in 

 a light wholly different from that in which 

 it is regarded by the Darwinian. 



According to Darwin, man is .descended 

 from an ape-like form in a Darwinian way, 

 i.e. by imperceptible increments. Thus 

 there must have existed a long chain of 

 intermediate forms, from the ape-like pro- 

 genitor to man as we know him. Hence 

 the demand for a missing link. But now, 

 not only has no such link ever been found, 

 but it may be unhesitatingly asserted, that it 



