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Updated: May 10, 2025
On the other hand, it is an implication of the Darwinian doctrine that species are essentially unlimited in existence. When they die out as sooner or later any species may the verdict must be accidental death, under stress of adverse circumstances, not exhaustion of vitality; and, commonly, when the species seems to die out, it will rather have suffered change.
Finally, a difficulty exists as to the reason of the absence of rich fossiliferous deposits in the oldest strata if life was then as abundant and varied as, on the Darwinian theory, it must have been. Mr. Darwin himself admits "the case at present must remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as a valid argument against the views" entertained in his book.
Pale Thought, that mental emetic, banished from my system, I became the healthy, unreasoning animal, and acted as such. From my methods, I frankly admit, science was absent. In simple, primitive fashion that would have charmed a Darwinian disciple to observe, I "went for" the whole crowd. To employ the expressive idiom of the neighbourhood, I was "all over it and inside."
Indeed, to turn the point of a taking simile directed against Darwin, the difference between the Darwinian and the Owenian hypotheses may, after all, be only that between homoeopathic and heroic doses of the same drug.
Mr. Emerson our Ralph Waldo virtually accepts this theory of development, substituting, however, a stomach for an ovule, and the reverse of the Darwinian proposition, in what he is pleased to call "the incessant opposition of nature to everything hurtful." "It is in the stomach of plants," he says, "that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe."
So in the twenty-first century some avatar of M. Figuier will perhaps describe the late professor Agassiz as the author of the Darwinian theory. And lastly, we are treated to a real dialogue, with quite a dramatic mise en scene.
It was through this same work on morphology that Haeckel first came to be universally recognized as the great continental champion of Darwinism the Huxley of Germany. Like Huxley, Haeckel had at once made the logical application of the Darwinian theory to man himself, and he sought now to trace the exact lineage of the human family as no one had hitherto attempted to fathom it.
When, therefore, he stresses as most anti-Socialists do the Darwinian struggle for existence, when he assails the humanitarian and Christian doctrine of helping the weak, when he calls into question the received code of morals, and when he extols self-assertion and strength of will, his fiery words do lend some confirmation, which he assuredly never intended, to the Prussian ideal of a State.
Some papers which he had begun to write for the Magazine, in contravention of the Darwinian theory, or part of it, which it is known Agassiz did not accept, remained part of the work which he never finished.
We wish merely to point out that if the variations invoked are accidental, they do not, whether small or great, account for a similarity of structure such as we have cited. Let us assume, to begin with, the Darwinian theory of insensible variations, and suppose the occurrence of small differences due to chance, and continually accumulating.
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