Opponents of Darwin 
obtained acceptance. We venture to say that 
statements such as these are misleading. We 
think we may safely assert that scarcely ever has 
a theory which fundamentally changed the pre- 
vailing scientific beliefs met with less opposition. 
It would have been a good thing for zoology had 
Darwin not obtained so easy a victory. 
Sir Richard Owen, a distinguished anatomist, 
certainly attacked the doctrine in no unmeasured 
terms, but his attack was anonymous and so 
cannot be considered very formidable. Far more 
_ important was the opposition of Dr St George 
Mivart, whose worth as a biologist has never 
been properly appreciated. His most important 
work, entitled the Geneszs of Species, might be 
read with profit even now by many of our modern 
Darwinians. 
For some time after the publication of the 
Origin of Specces Mivart appears to be almost 
the only man of science fully alive to the weak 
points of the Darwinian theory. The great 
majority seem to have been dazzled by its 
brilliancy. 
The main attack on Darwinism was conducted 
by the theologians and their allies, who considered 
it to be subversive of the Mosaic account of the 
Creation. Now, when one whose scientific know- 
ledge is, to say the best of it, not extensive, attacks 
a man who has studied his subject dispassionately 
for years, and invariably expresses himself with 
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