54 " Natural Selection " 



multiplication, not mentioned by Darwin, is that which 

 is sometimes imposed by the individuals of the species 

 on one another. Thus, in some animals, as, for 

 example, the hyaena, the male occasionally devours 

 his own young ones." Paulin worked at his discovery 

 for ten years and published his book in 1908, and it is 

 surely a great triumph to his marvellous power of 

 logical deduction that in the following year a great 

 and illuminative work by scientific investigators of 

 the very first order, full of original observations and 

 arguments, attacking and subversive of the very 

 foundation of the Darwinian hypothesis, should 

 mention a check on the increase of species in one tribe 

 of carnivora — which Paulin had demonstrated applied 

 in the case of all prolific herbivora and carnivora. 

 " The whirligig of time brings in his revenges," and 

 he, who was attacked by nearly all the careless and 

 ignorant reviewers of the various journals which 

 pretend to deal with scientific matters, whether daily or 

 weekly, popular or scientific, has proved his case and 

 come into his own. He died in the following year, but 

 fully persuaded that at some not far-off date truth 

 would prevail. And he has not had to wait long, for 

 already, in the very year after, come these most 

 brilliant investigators and philosophers in matters 

 zoological with the positive assurance that in one tribe 

 and in others his law does operate, and one has little 

 hesitation in believing that in time they will appreciate 

 its universality and its application to all the prolific 

 carnivores and herbivores. 



We have already pointed out that Dewar and Finn 

 have exploded the hitherto accepted views of " natural 

 selection" in bringing about protective mimicry and 

 warning. They attack it also as the means of survival 

 of favourable variations, and point out that natural 

 selection " may indirectly cause the survival of un- 



