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collateral speculations from the major theory strikingly con- 
trasts with Mr. Darwin’s dexterity in confusing them. 
The task here is an exposition from the technical stand- 
point of the several inversions and kindred tamperings with 
Darwinism committed from time to time by “ Mr. Darwin’s 
authorised interpreter.” 
The Parentage of the Origin of Species. 
In 1859, in “ Macmillan’s Magazine,” and in 1877, in the 
“ Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebratea Animals,” 
Darwinism seems to have meant natural selection ; and 
“ divergence ” is spoken of as existing between “ three 
views ” held “ among those who accept the dodtrine of 
Evolution in its general outlines ” (“ Manual,” p. 40). In 
1880, when the “ Origin of Species ” came of age, “ Evolu- 
tion in its general outlines ” apparently monopolised it, and, 
as remarked above and by others, natural selection was not 
mentioned. In 1878, in the transitional stage, the name of 
Mr. Wallace was thrice associated with that of Mr. Darwin, 
and Evolution was represented as the “ irrepressible ” suc- 
cessor of sundry conceptions chronologically intermediate 
between Treviranus and Lamarck and Darwin and Wallace 
(“ Science and Culture,” pp. 297, 306-308). In 1880 “ the 
‘Origin of Species’ [became] the logical sequence of the 
sequence of the ‘ Principles of Geology.’ The fundamental 
dodlrine of the ‘ Origin of Species’” ceased to be natural 
selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the 
struggle for life. Not a vestige of proof is offered to sub- 
stantiate the implication that Mr. Darwin was ever one 
whit guided by deduction from the speculations of physical 
geology. 
The Absolute and Pure Darwinian. 
This “ creature ” (“ Critiques and Addresses,” p. 298) 
differs from the Darwinian Darwinian in that he ignores the 
effects of use, variation independent of natural selection, 
and so on. When therefore Prof. Huxley doubts whether 
he “ can ever have seen one alive,” one legitimately experts 
that Dr. Mivart is about to be reprimanded for “ passing 
over the effects of the increased use and disuse of parts,” 
&c. (“ Origin of Species,” p. 176). In truth, however, Prof. 
Huxley never mentions these topics, being himself the 
nearest approach to the censured creature perhaps ever yet 
seen alive. Let us quote him : — “ What if species should 
offer residual phenomena, here and there, not explicable by 
