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incredible Mr. Darwin's system was found to he, as 

 soon as it was fully realised, but there he rather left 

 us. He seemed to say that we must have our descent 

 and our design too, but he did not show how we were 

 to manage this with rudimentary organs still staring 

 us in the face. His work rather led up to the clearer 

 statement of the difficulty than either put it before us 

 in so many words, or tried to remove it. Nevertheless 

 there can be no doubt that the " Genesis of Species '' 

 gave Natural Selection wh'at will prove sooner or later 

 to be its death-blow, in spite of the persistence with 

 which many still declare that it has received no hurt, 

 and the sixth edition af the " Origin of Species," 

 published in the following year, bore abundant traces 

 of the firay. Moreover, though Mr. Mivart gave us no 

 overt aid, he pointed to the source from which help 

 might come, by expressly saying that his most im- 

 portant objection to Neo-Darwinism iad no force 

 against Lamarck. 



To Lamarck, therefbue, I naturally turned, and soon 

 saw that the theory on which I had been insisting 

 in " Life and Habit " was in reality an easy corollary 

 on his system, though one which he does not appear 

 to have caught sight of. I also saw that his denial of 

 design was only, so to speak, skin deep, and that his 

 system was in reality teleological, inasmuch as, to use 

 Isidore Geoffrey's words, it makes the organism design 

 itself. In making variations depend on changed actions, 

 and these, again, on changed views of life, efforts, and 

 designs, in consequence of changed conditions of life, 

 he in effect makes effort, intention, will, all of which 



