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individual would have the best chance 

 of preserving his existence (survival of 

 the fittest theory). If the less equipped 

 bulls of the herd were torn to pieces, 

 then the individual thus equipped would 

 propagate the species. Then little by 

 little a completely horned species would 

 be formed, especially if the other sex would 

 of its own accord give the preference to 

 the males thus ornamented, and here 

 Darwin's theory of NATURAL SELECTION is 

 supplemented by the so-called Sexual Se- 

 lection, to which 'he has recently devoted a 

 special work." 



In a similar manner another of Darwin's 

 distinguished disciples, Sir John Lubbock, 

 in his address at York in 1881, as Presi- 

 dent of the British Association, committed 

 the common fault of treating as scientific 

 truths the Evolution and Natural Selection 

 theories, which were even then warmly 

 disputed or denied by almost all the chief 

 authorities of that age, as I shall presently 

 show ; and which have by this time, as 

 you yourselves well know, totally dis- 



