i6o Life and Love. 



XVIII. 



INDIVIDUALITY. 



THE power of variation has raised the animal 

 world from the condition of simple proto- 

 plasm to one wherein is found the complex intel- 

 ligent being. 



Without power to vary, all life would have 

 Iain prostrate in the form of undifferentiated 

 protoplasm. 



Whence came this restless, compelling impulse 

 to change? 



All we know is that it resided in the protoplasm. 



The great Lamarck made intelligence one of the 

 attributes of protoplasm, — not conscious intelli- 

 gence, but an inherent force inevitably working 

 towards a definite end. 



It was he who said, " Animals vary from low 

 and primitive types chiefly by dint of wish- 

 ing; " and he was well laughed at by the world 

 in consequence. 



Perhaps the world laughed too soon. 



" Animals vary upward by wishing." Lamarck 

 spoke as a great poet when he said that; and it is, 

 after all, the poet who illuminates the truth and 



