This Confirmed Habit. 195 



If not, the analogy fails, and fails wholly on the most 

 important point. 



This confirmed habit of " probably it was," " it 

 may be," " it might be," " it tnust be," and so on, 

 with Darwin and his followers — the reading is always 

 of the subjective notion into the fact — is precisely 

 what gives Professor St. George Mivart his strong 

 points against the Darwinians, especially in his very 

 bold and original " Origin of Human Reason." 



