WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT. 69 
variety of the turnip is tending to become man.” It is 
not true that evolutionists expect to find, as Dr. Seelye 
has affirmed, “the growth of the highest 
alga into a zoéphyte, a phenomenon for 
which sharp eyes have sought, and which 
is not only natural but inevitable on the 
Darwinian hypothesis, and whose discovery would make 
the fame of any observer.” 
It is no wonder that a clear thinker should have re- 
jected “ the Darwinian hypothesis’ when stated in such 
terms as this. The line of junction in evolution is al- 
ways at the bottom. It is the lowest mammals which 
approach the lowest reptiles; it is the lower types of 
plants which approach the lower types of animals; it 
would be the lowest alga, to use Dr. Seelye’s illustration, 
which would be transmutable into the lowest zoéphyte ; 
it is the unspecialized, undifferentiated type from which 
branches diverge in different ways. Humanity is not 
the “ goal of evolution,” not even that of human evolu- 
tion. There will be no second “creation of man” ex- 
cept from man’s own loins. There will not be a second 
Anglo-Saxon race unless it has the old Anglo-Saxon 
blood in its veins. 
Adaptation by divergence—for the most part by slow 
stages—is the movement of evolution. While occasional 
leaps or sudden changes occur in the 
process, they are by no means the rule. 
In most cases of “saltatory evolution ” 
the suddenness is in appearance only. It comes from 
our inability to trace the intermediate stages. When an 
epoch-making character is acquired, as the wings of a 
bird or the brain of man, the process of readjustment 
of other characters goes on with greatly increased 
rapidity. But this rapidity of evolution is along the 
same lines as the slower processes. Radical changes 
Humanity not 
the goal of 
evolution. 
Change by slow 
divergence. 
