Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern".

  • Suckling, Horatio John
Date:
1888
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Credit: Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ An Intelligent self-acting power The product of many natural laws...or sequence of events as ascertained by us.”[p.83.] Are we to believe a few primal species, could have developed into all the varied forms of the animal world, in a haphazard way, without any plan, or control, beyond an inexorable struggle for existence?—No the whole of nature presents irrefragable evidence of a pre-arranged plan, which Mr. Darwin’s theory practically ignores; making the evolution of species a merely fort- uitous circumstance. How is it that beings, possess “ an inherent tendency to vary? ”■—As there can be no effect without a cause. On this point, Mr. Darwin professes ignorance. At page 107, he says, “ there are two factors in variation. The nature of the organism, which is the most important of the two, and the nature of the conditions... This induces me to lay less weight on the direct action of the surroundings, than On a tendency to vary due to causes of which we are quite ignorant.” In his latter editions he. says, he has under-
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