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Darwin, C, and Hunting of the 

 Snark, 97 



on the eye, 97 



cutting out "accidental," 98 



did not like his accidental 



variations, 99 



and "the unerring skill" of 



natural selection, 99 



"power represented by natu- 

 ral selection," 100 



his several editions, loi 



found his natural selection a 



millstone, loi 



^— admits element of cunning, 105 



his real name, 106 



never met H. Spencer's fatal 



objection, 120 



waved Jiamarck and E. Darwin 



aside, 145 



said sometimes one thing and 



sometimes its opposite, J77, 178 



intended his change of front 



to escape us, 181, 260 



supposed leaningto wards func- 

 tion in later life, 182 



if he had olianged, should 



have said so, 183 



important, unimportant, 186 



and "experienced naturalists," 



187 



"imperfect answer," "satis- 

 factory, 187 



there must be some other, i88 



why he did not say wh^t he 



meant, 189 



told Lamarck to go away, 190 



and "Vestiges," 190, 250 



Cast about for a distinctive 



feature, 190 



— ^ did not acknowledge earlier 

 evolutionists till 6000 copies of 

 his work had been sold, 190, 339, 

 248 



his attitude towards descent, 



explains his natural selection, 191 



his claim to theory of descent, 



192, &o., 204, &c. 



figure of straw re the mistle- 

 toe, 198 



naive letter to H^ckel, 199 



G. Allen on his youth, 204, &c. 



treats descent as identical 



with natural selection, 209, &c,, 

 214, &a., 2^8, 229, 232 



his categorical "my,'' 223 



on genealogical order of nature, 



225, 226 



Darwin, C., alters "on" to "opposed 

 to " and " according to, 229, 

 230 



an interminable number, 230 



ubiquity of his claim, 235 



his categorical "my," 236 



sneaked his my's out, 237, &o. 



his meanness, and greatness 



of his services, 242 



what he should have said, 242, 



243 



his distinctive feature, 243, &o. 



ostrioh-like and pitiable, 245 



forthcoming life of, 245 



told Lamarck to go away, after 



grossly misrepresenting him, 247 

 • neutralised his historical 



sketch, by his book, 248 

 — — and " seems, " re Lamarck, 248, 



249 

 made all sure behind him, 249, 



251 



and "Vestiges of Creation," 



250 



— - "presumes"' re the "Ves- 

 tiges," 251 



■ suave, but singularly fraudu- 

 lent, 252 ' 



' misconception about his doc- 

 trine and Lamarck's, 259, 260 



his conspicuous sinking of self, 



ostentatious unostentatiousness, 

 and mastery over simplisity, 261 



like Aristides, 36a 



greatest of living men, 262 



and Herod, 262 



■ cogent while following La- 

 marck, 272 



fortuitousness of variations 



kept as dark as possible, 272 



so fogged us, that we did not 



catch his doctrine, 275 



"in trying to filch, while pre- 

 tending to amend," ho., 278 



his own fault, if misunder- 

 stood, 278 



wished us to misunderstand, 



279 



should not be judged by letter 



of his books, 281 



• no writer done so much good 



as, 282 



his persistency, 282, &c, 



like Pope Julius II., 283 , 



did not show early promise, 



283 



on earthquakes, 284 



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