And so, Mr. Charles Darwin and Mr. Alfred Wallace, in 
reviving the theory of transmutation, declare they have found 
out that ail existing forms of living beings are but results of a 
so-called “law of natural selection.” And every philosopher 
who has “ fallen in love ” with this new scientific damsel, com- 
passionating her “ struggle for existence,” like a true knight- 
errant “ loves and rides away,” of course to the maiden’s rescue 
in her youthful difficulties. First, Mr. Darwin himself, trembling 
for the safety of this Dulcinea of his own fancy, gallops oft 
somewhat unexpectedly, his lance a little out of rest, and pro- 
tected with a “braw an’ new”* shield, which bears upon it 
the ominous new-fangled motto “Pangenesis.” While close 
upon his heels comes scampering fast his black and doughty 
squire, Professor Huxley, with arms, carbon — the modern for 
“sable,” — a nettle vert, barbed and seeded; for Supporters — 
Dexter, a demi-man couped and affrontee sa. ; sinister, a monkey 
rampant, with tail nyllee, hands and feet counter-changed, 
“ all ppr.” ; and waving wildly to and fro over all the flora 
and fauna of the globe, a long new-painted banner, with 
an endless seroll, inscribed with the single word “ Protoplasm .” 
Sir John Lubbock next enters the lists; but he does not follow 
the old-fashioned modes of warfare. He bears no shield nor 
banner, and appears chiefly to rely for victory in his wager of 
battle, on behalf of the evolution of civilized men out of apes 
and savages, upon a heavy supply of chipped flints, carried in 
large saddle-bags, and a remarkable kind of boomerang, which 
appears but a home-made and unskilled copy of the very effective 
weapon of the aboriginal savages of Australia. 
7. It is with Sir John Lubbock we have now chiefly to do. 
Let us, therefore, proceed to the consideration of his paper. 
He thus opens the question : — 
“ Side by side with the different opinions whether man constitutes one 
of many species, there are two opposite views as to the primitive condition 
of the first men, or first beings worthy to be so called. 
“ Many writers have considered that man was at first a mere savage, 
and that our history has on the whole been a steady progress towards 
civilization, though at times, and at some times for centuries, some races 
have been stationary, or even have retrograded. Other authors, of no less 
eminence, have taken a diametrically opposite view. According to them, 
man was, from the commencement, pretty much what he is at present ; 
* I introduce this apposite Scotticism, in order to observe incidentally, 
that it appears to be the primitive form and proper original of a still 
common expression which has first been developed into “ bran new,” and 
more recently transmuted into “ brand new,” by some one evidently 
under bottle*inspiration ! 
