CHAPTER III.— Professor Korchinsky Rejects Dar- 

 winism — His Theory of Heterogenesis — Professor 

 Haberlandt of Graz — Demonstration of a "Vital 

 Force" — Its Nature — The Sudden Origination 

 of a New Organ — Importance of the Experiment . 49 



CHAPTER IV.— Testimony of a Palaeontologist, Pro- 

 fessor Steinmann — On Haeckel's Fimiily Trees — 

 The Principle of Multiple Origin — Extmction of 

 the Saurians — "Darwinism Not the Alpha and 

 Omega of the Doctrine of Descent" — Steinmann's 

 Conclusions 60 



CHAPTER v.— Eimer's Theory of Organic Growth 

 — Definite Lines of Development — Rejects Dar- 

 win's Theory of Fluctuating Variations^ — Opposes 

 Weismann — Repudiates Darwinian "Mimicry" — 

 Discards the "Romantic" Hypothesis of Sexual 

 Selection — "Transmutation is a Physiological Pro- 

 cess, a Phyletic Growth" 69 



CHAPTER VI. — Admissions of a Darwinian — Pro- 

 fessor von Wagner's Explanation of the Decay of 

 Darwinism — Darwinism Rejects the Inductive 

 Method, Hence Unscientific — Wagner's Contra- 

 dictory Assertions go 



