Growing Opposition to Darwinism 
majority of biologists that they see everything 
through Darwinian spectacles. The wish has 
been in many cases the father to the observation. 
Zoologists are ever on the lookout for the action 
of natural selection, and in consequence frequently 
imagine they see it where it does not exist. 
Many naturalists, consciously or unconsciously, 
stretch facts to make them fit the Darwinian theory. 
Those facts which refuse to be so distorted are, if 
not actively ignored or suppressed, overlooked as 
throwing no light upon the doctrine. This is no 
exaggeration. A perusal of almost any popular 
book dealing with zoological theory leaves the 
impression that there is nothing left to be ex- 
plained in the living world, that there is no door 
leading to the secret chambers of nature to which 
natural selection is not an ‘“‘ open sesame.” 
But the triumph of natural selection has not 
been so complete as its more enthusiastic sup- 
porters would have us believe. Some there are 
who have never admitted the all-sufficiency of 
natural selection. In the British Isles these have 
never been numerous. In the United States of 
America and on the Continent they are more 
abundant. The tendency seems to be for them 
to increase in numbers. Hence the recent 
lamentations of Dr Wallace and Sir E. Ray 
Lankester. Modern biologists are commonly 
supposed to fall into two schools of thought— 
the Neo-Darwinian and the Neo-Lamarckian. 
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