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Updated: May 24, 2025
Darwin's sentence; and these are mainly functional or Erasmus-Darwinian; for the indirect action of the conditions of life is mainly functional, and the direct action is admitted on all hands to be but small. The bottles have the same labels, and they are of the same colour, but the one holds brandy, and the other toast and water.
Being anxious to give the reader a sample of the arguments against the theory of natural selection from among variations that are mainly either directly or indirectly functional in their inception, or more briefly against the Erasmus-Darwinian and Lamarckian systems, I can find nothing more to the point, or more recent, than Professor Ray Lankester's letter to the Athenaeum of March 29, 1884, to the latter part of which, however, I need alone call attention.
But let this pass; as with Mr. Darwin, so with Mr. Wallace, and so indeed with all who accept Mr. Charles Darwin's natural selection as the main means of modification, the central idea is luck, while the central idea of the Erasmus-Darwinian system is cunning.
Darwin's later style passing this over as having been written some twenty years before the "Origin of Species" the last paragraph of the "Origin of Species" itself is purely Lamarckian and Erasmus-Darwinian. Where are the accidental fortuitous, spontaneous variations now?
Darwin had been dealing fairly by us, when he saw that we had failed to catch the difference between the Erasmus-Darwinian theory of descent through natural selection from among variations that are mainly functional, and his own alternative theory of descent through natural selection from among variations that are mainly accidental, and, above all, when he saw we were crediting him with other men's work, he would have hastened to set us right.
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