Romanes follows suit. ny 



And, notwithstanding the extraordinary reputation 

 accorded to Mr. Darwin, for patient observation and 

 persistence, and his independence of all authority, 

 here we find him, implicitly followed, too, by Mr. 

 Romanes, most meekly accepting Jenner's endeav- 

 ours to force the facts to fit his theory ; and neither 

 one nor the other of our great geniuses of evolution 

 think for a moment of waiting a year or two, and 

 quietly going to look for themselves. No, they prefer 

 to accept Jenner's version, and to theorise, and dog- 

 matise, and say " it may be," and " probably it was," 

 etc., etc., instead of using their much vaunted observ- 

 ing faculties, and just for a little while going to look 

 and see for themselves. 



Just compare all this Jennerised theory and argu- 

 ment about the cuckoo, both on Mr. Darwin's and 

 Mr. Romanes' parts, with the excellent result of ob- 

 servations close and careful of Mr. Romanes and his 

 sister on the Cehus, in Animal Intelligence, pp. 484 — 

 498, where due and careful observation of the creature 

 was directly and patiently made ; though, of course, 

 one disadvantage is still involved in observation under 

 such circumstances, that the creature is isolated and 

 in artificial conditions. But you cannot bring a 

 cuckoo into your house, and get it to live with you, 

 as you can do with the Cebus, and therein lies the 

 mighty difference, — ^just as certain deer the artist can 

 get into his studio, and can there paint from them ; 

 but others, that he sometimes very much wants to 

 paint, he cannot get brought to him in this way, and 

 hence some of the most notable blunders.* 



*See Lord Southesk's Britain's Art Paradise, which contains 

 a list of some natural history errors in Academy exhibitions. 



