THE()RII<:S OF LAMARCK AXT) DAKWIX .S9I 



"A deer wiih a neck which was longer ])y half 

 Than the rest of his famil}-'s — tr\' not lo laugh — 

 Bv stretching and stretching became a giraffC; 

 Which nobody can deny." 



The clever voung woman, Miss Kendall, however, in her 

 Song oj the Ichthyosaurus, showed clearness in grasjjing 

 Darwin's idea when she wrote: 



"Ere man was developed, our brother, 

 We swam, we ducked, and we dived, 

 And we dined, as a rule, on each other. 

 What matter? The toughest survived." 



This hits the idea of natural selection. The other two illus- 

 trations miss it, but strike the ])rinci]jle which was enunciated 

 bv Lamarck. This confusion between Lamarckism and Dar- 

 winism is \er}' wide-spread. 



Darwin's book on the Origin oj Species, ])ublished in 

 1859, was e])och-making. If a group of scholars were asked 

 to designate the greatest book of the nineteenth century — 

 that is, the book which created the greatest intellectual stir — 

 it is likely that a large ])roportion of them would re])l}- that 

 it is Darwin's Origin oj Species. Its influence was so great 

 in the different domains of thought that we ma\' obserxe a 

 natural cleavage between the thought iii reference to nature 

 between 1859 and all preceding time. His other less widely- 

 known books on Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 

 the Descent oj Man, etc., etc., are also im])ortant contributions 

 to the discussion of his theorx-. A brief account of Darwin, 

 the man, will be found in Chapter XIX. 



