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140 NATURAL SELECTION ^vithis subject, I would again respectfully urge that they mustgrapple with the whole of the facts, not one or two of themonly.It will be admitted that, on the theory of evolutionand natural selection, a wide range of facts with regard tocolour in nature have been co-ordinated and explained. Untilat least an equally wide range of facts can be shown to be inharmony with any other theory, we can hardly be expectedto abandon that which has already done such good service,and which has led to the discovery of so many interestingand unexpected harmonies among the most common (buthitherto most neglected and least understood) of the phenomenapresented by organised beings.
VIICREATION BY LAW 1AMONG the various criticisms that have appeared on Mr.Darwin's celebrated Origin of Species, there is, perhaps,none that will appeal to so large a number of well educatedand intelligent persons as that contained in the Duke ofArgyll's Reign of Law. The noble author represents the feelingsand expresses the ideas of that large class of persons whotake a keen interest in the progress of science in general,and especially that of Natural History, but have never themselvesstudied nature in detail, or acquired that personalknowledge of the structure of closely allied forms, thewonderful gradations from species to species and from groupto group, and the infinite variety of the phenomena of " variation" in organic beings, which is absolutely necessary fora full appreciation of the facts and reasonings contained inMr. Darwin's great work.Nearly half of the Duke's book is devoted to an expositionof his idea of" Creation by Law," and he expresses so clearlywhat are his difficulties and objections as regards the theoryof " Natural Selection," that I think it advisable that theyshould be fairly answered, and that his own views should beshown to lead to conclusions .as hard to accept as any whichhe imputes to Mr. Darwin.The point on which the Duke of Argyll lays most stressis, that proofs of Mind everywhere meet us in Nature, andare more especiallymanifest wherever we find " contrivance "or "beauty." He maintains that this indicates the constant1First published in the Quarterly Journal of Science, October 1868 ;reprinted in Contributions, etc., with a few alterations and additions.
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140 NATURAL SELECTION ^vithis subject, I would again respectfully urge that they mustgrapple with the whole of the facts, not one or two of themonly.It will be admitted that, on the theory of evolutionand natural selection, a wide range of facts with regard tocolour in nature have been co-ordinated and explained. Untilat least an equally wide range of facts can be shown to be inharmony with any other theory, we can hardly be expectedto abandon that which has already done such good service,and which has led to the discovery of so many interestingand unexpected harmonies among the most common (buthitherto most neglected and least understood) of the phenomenapresented by organised beings.
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