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Serial homologues so formed might be called, as Mr. Ray Lankester has proposed, "homoplastic." But there are, it is here contended, abundant reasons for thinking that the predominant agent in the production of the homologies of the limbs is an internal force or tendency.
"There now," exclaims Professor Ray Lankester on this, "I told you so; the theory collapses absolutely; his whole object and desire is to show that the hour-hand moves, and yet when it comes to the point, he is obliged to confess that he cannot see it do so." Hence to observe such a change is excluded by the very terms of the question. Does Mr. Saville forget Mr.
Professor Ray Lankester continues: Darwin's hand. Surely "has become accepted" should be enough; Mr. Darwin's having demonstrated the mechanism." Darwin did not show it. George Henslow were the only means suggested by its advocates."
And Sir E. Ray Lankester goes on to point out the moral to be drawn from this development. He points out that
"Nature's Insurgent Son," as Sir Ray Lankester calls him, is at constant war with Nature, and when we come to consider the matter carefully, in that respect most fully differentiates himself from all other living things, none of which make any attempt to control the forces of Nature for their own advantage.
The incident had awakened a peculiarly strong feeling in the elder man, because during the early days of the recess he had written a series of letters to Marsham on the disputed matters that were dividing the party; letters intended not only to recall Marsham's own allegiance, but through him to reach two of the leading dissidents Lankester and Barton in particular, for whom he felt a strong personal respect and regard.
Other writers have referred to "a peculiar power of synthesis" in plants and animals, which the inanimate forms do not possess. Ray Lankester, to whom I have already referred in discussing this subject, helps himself out by inventing, not a new force, but a new substance in which he fancies "resides the peculiar property of living matter."
It contained material for which any ambitious journalist, at the present juncture, would give the eyes out of his head. But could Barrington be trusted? Oliver vaguely remembered some stories to his disadvantage, told probably by Lankester, who in these respects was one of the most scrupulous of men. Yet the paper stood high, and was certainly written with conspicuous ability.
What explanation could we give of this to a visitor from the moon or to those creatures of inferior species whom, as Sir E. Ray Lankester has told us, it is our function, thanks to our natural superiority, to command and control? This brings us to the second great branch of our subject the progress of mankind in the art of living together in the world.
Intemperance is so highly destructive, that the expectation of life of the intemperate, at the age of thirty for instance, is only 13.8 years; whilst for the rural labourers of England at the same age it is 40.59 years. E. Ray Lankester, 'Comparative Longevity, 1870, p. 115. The table of the intemperate is from Neison's 'Vital Statistics. In regard to profligacy, see Dr.
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