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Darwin, and after Darwin. 



Mr. Wallace has chosen a suitable title for his book ; 

 because, in view of the points just mentioned, it is 

 unquestionable that Darwi?iistn differs more widely 

 from the Origin of Species than does the Origin of 

 Species from the writings of the Neo-Lamarckians. 

 But, passing over this merely nominal matter, a few 

 words ought to be added on the very material 

 question regarding the human mind. In subsequent 

 chapters the more general question, or that which 

 relates to the range of utility and natural selection 

 elsewhere, will be fully considered. 

 Mr. Wallace says, — 



" The immense interest that attaches to the origin of the 

 human race, and the amount of misconception which prevails 

 regarding the essential teachings of Darwin's theory on the 

 question, as well as regarding my own special views upon it, 

 induce me to devote a final chapter to its discussion." 



Now I am not aware that there is any miscon- 

 ception in any quarter as to the essential teach- 

 ings of Darwin's theory 'on this question. Surely 

 it is rather the case that there is a very general and 

 very complete understanding on this point, both by 

 the friends and the foes of Darwin's theory — so much 

 so, indeed, that it is about the only point of similar 

 import in all Darwin's writings of which this can 

 be said. Mr. Wallace's " special views " on the 

 other hand are, briefly stated, that certain features, 

 both of the morphology and the psychology of man, 

 are inexplicable by natural selection — or indeed by 

 any other cause of the kind ordinarily understood 

 by the term natural : they can be explained only 

 by supposing " the intervention of some distinct 

 individual intelligence," which, however, need not 



