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representation. But the history of science shows that for- 
tunately this power does not long endure.” 
The reaction against the all-sufficiency of natural selec- 
tion, therefore, is something which was anticipated by Dar- 
win, and the quotation made above will be a novelty to many 
of our readers who supposed that they understood Darwin’s 
position. 
Confusion between Lamarck’s and Darwin’s Theories.— 
Besides the failure to understand what Darwin has written, 
there is great confusion, both in pictures and in writings, in 
reference to the theories of Darwin and Lamarck. Poulton 
illustrated a state of confusion in one of his lectures on the 
theory of organic evolution, and the following instances are 
quoted from memory. 
We are most of us familiar with such pictures as the 
following: A man standing and waving his arms; in the next 
picture these arms and hands become enlarged, and in the 
successive pictures they undergo transformations into wings, 
and the transference is made into a flying animal. 
Such pictures are designated “The origin of flight after 
Darwin.” The interesting circumstance is this, that the 
illustration does not apply to Darwin’s idea of natural selec- 
tion at all, but is pure Lamarckism. Lamarck contended 
for the production of new organs through the influence of 
use and disuse, and this particular illustration refers to that, 
and not to natural selection at all. 
Among the examples of ridicule to which Darwin’s ideas 
have been exposed, we cite one verse from the song of Lord 
Neaves. His lordship wrote a song with a large number of 
verses hitting off in jocular vein many of the claims and 
foibles of his time. In attempting to make fun of Darwin’s 
idea he misses completely the idea of natural selection, but 
hits upon the principle enunciated by Lamarck, instead. 
He says: 
