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elucidate the Affinities, Homologies, Analogies, and 

 Adaptations of Structure throughout the Animal and 

 Vegetable Kingdoms ; but I have observed that, 

 how well made out soever the subject may be, the 

 demonstration of Affinities, Homologies, Analogies, 

 and Adaptations of Structure does not add to the 

 confirmation of the Doctrine of Evolution ; nor does 

 the Doctrine of Evolution necessarily follow, in 

 any respect, the demonstrations of Philosophical 

 Anatomy. The two, however, having become 

 associated by recent teachings in the minds of 

 students, younger naturalists, who are impressed 

 more by the surface than the depths of things, see 

 in every homology of structure a manifestation of 

 Evolution by Natural Selection, by Survival of the 

 Fittest, in the Struggle for Existence. 



As the Schoolmen of the dark ages lost them- 

 selves in trying to make of the Philosophy of 

 Aristotle what it was not ; so Evolutionists seem to 

 be trying to make out of Philosophical Anatomy 

 what it does not really countenance. 



The result in this case being as unprofitable as 



the Quiddities of the Schoolmen, we may, perhaps 



not unjustly, apply to the followers of Darwin the 



Poet's censure of the ' Sons of Aristotle : ' 



' They stand 

 Locked up together hand in hand. 

 Every one leads as he is led: 

 The same bare path they tread, 

 And dance like fairies a fantastic round, 

 But neither change their motion, nor their ground.' 

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