Initiative in Evolution

case Lamarck versus Weismann was not heard in the Courts of Science during the war. In the present term it is due to be heard afresh, and at some future dat

tronghold and bar the gates. It may be satisfactory to himself for one Milner to write a book on behalf of a certain body of doctrine and call it The End of Controversy, but the book should have held the sub-title The End of Progress. The Newtons, Pasteurs and Darwins have seldom wielded the weapon of controversy, though the triumph of The Origin of Species would have been slower without the aid of Darwin’s brilliant champio

ngement of the mammalian hair, which h

reflec-tion, and perhaps by certain criticisms. The furrow ploughed may have been lonely, but the pursuit has not been without the mild pleasure of seeing fresh scattered portions of the field coming into their nat

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the utmost harmony prevailed. The want

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s, Graham Kerr, and Professors Sherrington, Starling, Sch?fer, McDougall

icism of two former books of mine which has been of use in this one; and Mr. R. E. Holding for good he