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HE English journals are evidently rather the nearest approach to scientific hypothesis that shy of Mr. Darwin's last work. They it is in his power to make. There is not a word approach it cautiously, and handle it of harsh criticism in his volumes, and, as far as a gingerly, as if they did not well know what to reader can judge, not a trace of disposition to dismake of it. They all, however, admit its merit as guise the objections to the views which he is disa contribution to natural history. The Athenæum posed to take. It is hard to conceive of a scientific remarks that "it is replete with facts and argu- style at once so dispassionate and so full of intelments, and that it is a natural-history maze. Its lectual vitality. There is nothing of the dreary literary merit lies in the marshalling and disposing prolixity of a mind too full to keep its material in due order of a multitude of observations gath- subordinate to the question under discussion, and ered from numerous inquirers, and from very yet nothing of the dogmatic vehemence of one numerous publications. Whoever will peruse that cannot bear to doubt the truth of its own these volumes apart from their ultimate aim, and conclusions. Every chapter advances the theory totally disregard the author's hypotheses, will be of the book, and yet every chapter deepens the highly pleased with them, and will readily ac- confidence of the reader in his author's candor knowledge the patience and industry of the com- and grasp." piler of so many scattered facts in natural history. We have, in this spirit, already twice read many pages, and hope twice to read many more. In this spirit, too, we are not concerned about vagueness or irrelativeness; we accept the volumes as a naturalist's miscellany, and are grateful for the entertainment they have afforded us.” The Spectator says that, even to readers who are not naturalists, Mr. Darwin's works are full of fascination and instruction. No writer of the day arranges his facts so lucidly, with so unquestionable a sincerity, and so undisguised a candor when he has difficulties to confess. Though Mr. Darwin has shocked the deepest prejudices and preposses sions, he seems to live in a region far above the temper of controversy, and to aim at nothing but Mr. St. George Mivart is an eminent English naturalist, who in his "Genesis of Species" has made the most effective reply to Darwin that has yet appeared. He treats Mr. Darwin with courtesy and candor, admits his great services to science, and the plausibility, at first sight, of his theory of natural selection, which lies at the basis of the whole Darwinian system. He then proceeds, with evident mastery of the subject, to suggest objections and to produce facts in opposition to natural selection, which leave that theory hardly any thing to stand upon. He admits, it is true, that to a certain extent natural selection exists and acts; but he maintains that, in order that we may be able to account for the production of known |