136 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 
plants, he had arrived at exactly the same general views 
regarding the origin of organic species as Darwin. Lyell 
and Hooker, both of whom had long known Darwin’s 
work, now induced him to publish a short extract from his 
manuscripts simultaneously with the manuscript senb him 
by Wallace. They appeared in the Jowrnal of the Linnean 
Society, August, 1858. 
Darwin’s great work “On the Origin of Species,” in: 
which the Theory of Selection is carried out in detail, ap- 
peared in November, 1859. Darwin himself, however, 
characterizes this book (of which a fifth edition appeared 
in 1869, and the German translation by Bronn as early as 
1860)? as only a preliminary extract from a larger and 
more detailed work, which is to contain a mass of facts in 
favour of his theory, and comprehensive and experimental 
proofs. The first part of the larger work promised by 
Darwin appeared in 1868, under the title, “The Variations 
of Animals and Plants in the State of Domestication,” and 
has been translated into German by Victor Carus.“ It con- 
tains a rich abundance of the most valuable evidence as 
to the extraordinary changes of organic forms which man 
can produce by cultivation and artificial selection. How- 
ever much we are indebted to Darwin for this abundance of 
convincing facts, still we do not by any means share the 
opinion of those naturalists who hold that the Theory of 
Selection requires for its actual proof these further details. 
It is our opinion that Darwin’s first work, which appeared 
in 1859, already contains sufficient proof. The unassailable 
strength of his theory does not lie in the immense amount 
of individual facts that may be adduced as proofs, but in 
the harmonious connection of all the great and general phe- 
