460 Evolution by Segregation-. [August, 
Great would have been the confusion among Bestiarian peers 
and prelates had the slip not been detected. 
Here, then, we have the two pictures. On the one hand, 
millions upon millions of creatures subject to pain and bond- 
age, often for a lifetime, to gratify man’s greed and luxury, 
Bestiarian prophets and Maenads looking on without feeling 
“ sick at heart.” On the other is a vanishing number of 
animals subjected to pain in the pursuit of knowledge, and 
here the Prophets and Maenads burst into frantic outcries. 
They then suddenly think that we “ have no right to torture 
the creatures of God for the sake of any supposed benefit we 
might derive from doing so.” They strain at the gnat after 
swallowing the camel. Did we not know man’s power of 
self-deception, especially when under the influence of fana- 
ticism, we might pronounce Bestiarians — with the exception 
of such as, like Mrs. A. Kingsford, M.D., strive to be con- 
sistent— the most amazing hypocrites that the world has 
ever known. 
(To be continued.) 
IV. EVOLUTION BY SEGREGATION. 
» T is now generally conceded by those whose previous 
studies have made them able to decide, that Evolution, 
broadly speaking, must be accepted as the mode in 
which organic species, as we see them, have come to exist. 
But in what manner this process of Evolution has been 
effected, what is its cause, and what are its laws of adtion 
are still very open questions. The theory of Natural Selec- 
tion, as originally put forward by Darwin and by Mr. A. R. 
Wallace, is certainly not gaining ground. Not to speak of 
the arguments brought against it by Prof. St. George Mivart,* 
within the last few years it has become almost a truism that 
before Selection of any kind can come into play there must 
be varieties among which to seledt. It is also contended 
that the struggle for existence — the reality and intensity of 
which no one seeks to deny — must tend, in the main, to 
* Genesis of Species. 
