134 Species; or, Darwinism. 



compounded of simple terms which are incompati- 

 ble: if it is a selection that is really meant, it must 

 be artificial, not natural; if it is natural, as opposed 

 to artificial, then it is no selection. There is a ver- 

 bal equivocation in using the same term for two 

 different ideas. But if the conception was hon- 

 estly intended, then it rests upon a mistaken and 

 false analogy, as we hinted at in the same place. 

 So that to conclude with the words of M. Jean 

 d'Estienne, in the number for January, 1889, of the 

 Revue which I have quoted before: " Reduced to its 

 most simple expression, stripped of all seduction of 

 style, and of all logical artifice, Darwinism comes 

 down to a very small affair. It is a system of hy- 

 potheses ingeniously applied to the justification of 

 a first hypothesis." 



We proceed next to the origin of life and its 

 progress on this globe. This will lead us to ex- 

 amine the Cell, and the march of Evolution. 



