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Huxley's Writings, passim. Haeckel's "Natural History of Creation." Weismann's "Studies in the Theory of Descent" and subsequent papers. Romanes's "Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution." Lankester's "Degeneration." Fiske's "Darwinism and Other Essays." For adverse criticism of Darwin, read Mivart's "Genesis of Species," and the Duke of Argyll's "Unity of Nature."
With a prophetic insight which seldom failed him, he saw that Marsham's chapter of success was closed. He might get some small office out of the Government. Nevertheless, the scale of life had dropped on the wrong side. Through Lankester's thought there shot a pang of sympathy. Defeat was always more winning to him than triumph. Meanwhile the new member himself was in no melting mood.
Silence. "Ferrier!" The tone of the repeated word brought the moisture to Lankester's eyes. He took the dreamer's hand in his, pressing it. Marsham returned the pressure, first strongly, again more feebly. Then a wave of narcotic sleep returned upon him, and he seemed to sink into it profoundly.
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.
Mrs Edna Hall had honoured Mrs Lankester's introduction most hospitably; but she was too busy a woman to do as much for us as her kindness suggested, and she had therefore introduced us to another friend Mrs Maria Porter a most picturesque, clever, and characteristic figure in Boston society in the eighties. Both these ladies accompanied us to the "Sisters Berry."
The writer proceeded to reprobate this in language upon which a Huxley could hardly improve, but as he declares himself unable to discover what it means, it may be presumed that the idea of continued personality between successive generations was new to him. When Dr. He then mentioned Professor Ray Lankester's article in Nature, of which I had not heard, but he said nothing about Mr.
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