36 DARWIN AND NATURAL SELECTION 



and most wonderful have been, and are being 

 evolved."* Now as to the alterations made, which 

 are not uninstructive. In the first place, the words 

 which I have italicized were added in pencil, in 

 the first draft, showing that Darwin was at that 

 time, at least, hesitating between a monophyletic 

 and a polyphyletic theory ; and, in the next place, 

 the words " by the Creator " were introduced in 

 the second edition.f 



It is obvious that it is unfair to Darwin to hide 

 the monistic derivations which some have made 

 from his works under the aegis of his name. 



There is another aspect of Darwin's life-work 

 which might be much more fairly spoken of as 

 Darwinism, though, as a fact, few, if any, would 

 speak of it in that way, and that is the great mass 

 of positive contributions to science which must 

 ever remain an abiding honour to his name. Of 

 such are his works connected with the Voyage of 

 the " Beagle," the Volcanic Islands, the Mono- 

 graph on the Cirripedes, the fascinating volumes 

 on Orchids, Climbing Plants, Earthworms and 

 the like. These are works which excite much less 

 popular interest than his more theoretical treatises, 

 for the reason that they are mostly related to 

 positive science, and only in a minor degree to 

 philosophical theory. When DrieschJ proclaims 

 that Darwinism " is a matter of history, like that 

 other curiosity of our century, Hegel's philosophy," 



* Origin of Species, (6th ed.), p. 429. 



f The Foundation of the Origin of Species, p. 254, Note and p. 53. 

 The, quotations are from the Biologisches Zentralblatt^ the first 

 1896, p. 355 ; the second 1902, p. 182. 



