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really does pay something by way of changed habits ; 

 this results in variation, in virtue of which the accounts 

 are cooked, cobbled, and passed by a series of those 

 miracles of inconsistency which we call compromises, 

 and after this they cannot be reopened — not till 

 next time. 



Surely of the two factors which go to the making, 

 up of development, cunning is the one more proper to 

 be insisted on as determining the physical and psychical 

 well or ill being, and hence, ere long, the future form 

 of the organism. We can hardly open a newspaper 

 without seeing some sign of this ; take, for example, 

 the following extract from a letter in the Times of the 

 day on which I am writing (Feb. 8, 1886) — " You may 

 pass along a road which divides a settlement of Irish 

 Celts .from one of Germans. They all came to the 

 country equally without money, and have had to fight 

 their way in the forest, but the difference in their 

 condition is very remarkable ; on the German side 

 there is comfort, thrift, peace, but on the other side 

 the spectacle is very different." Pew will deny that 

 slight organic differences, corresponding to these differ- 

 ences of habit, are already perceptible ; no Darwinian 

 will deny that these differences are likely to be inherited, 

 and, in the absence of intermarriage between the two 

 colonies, to result in still more typical difference than 

 that which exists at present. According to Mr. 

 Darwin, the improved type of the more successful race 

 would not be due mainly to transmitted perseverance 

 in Veil-doing, but to the fact that if any member of 

 the German colony " happened " to be born '' ever so 



