6 A NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 



These facts are summed up in ORGANIC 

 EVOLUTION ; and, according to Darwin, 

 NATURAL SELECTION was the means by 

 which evolution was brought about. Evol- 

 ution is thus quite distinct from natural 

 selection. 



Evolution is an accepted fact, but it is 

 denied that evolution was brought about 

 by natural selection. The succession of 

 different types, and the fundamental simi- 

 larity in organisation between any race and 

 its antecessor in the same line of evolu- 

 tion, are established facts confirmed by the 

 continuous discoveries of science, and it is 

 Darwin's glory that he made them familiar 

 to the public mind ; but evidence of evol- 

 ution does not prove that evolution was 

 brought about by natural selection ; neither 

 does it establish the truth of natural selec- 

 tion to show that the Mosaic cosmogony is 

 not in accordance with the facts of geology. 



Until the middle of last century the Mosaic 

 account of the creation of animals and plants 

 was generally accepted and stoutly upheld 

 by dogmatic theology; but in 1859 Darwin 

 made public his theory of the evolution of 

 species from the first simple forms of life by 

 natural causes, and this theory, after much 

 controversy, became, and is still, widely ac- 



