...and sudden modification in their structure." * " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." * The writer in the North British Review already, quoted so freely, speaks of " the Darwinian theory...

...short and slow stages" (p. 214). Again he says: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case " (p. 208). He adds : — " Every detail of structure in every living...

...short and slow stages" (p. 214). Again he says: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case " (p. 208). He adds:— " Every detail of structure in every living...

...leap, but must advance by short and slow stages. If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." Compare that extract with this : " I now admit, after reading the essay of Nageli on plants, and the...

...Descent,* but is explicable on the theory of * " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." — DABWIN, Origin of Species, 5th ed. p. 227. In several passages insistence is made on this. "Natura...

...are more credulous than himself. Again he says, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."t Remarkable reasoning this ! When he fails to prove his theory by facts he challenges his reader...

...attempting to explain the origin of the eye, he says, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. 4 Murray, 1871, vol. ii. p. 387. " No doubt man, as well as every other animal, presents structures...

...untenable. Thus in the 'Origin of Species ' he says, ' If it could be demonstrated that any complete organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications my theory would absolutely break down.' Then in ' The Descent of Man ' he says, ' An unexplained residuum of change, perhaps a large one, must...

...structure " ; 1 Darwin himself having said that " if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."2 1 Origin of Species, pp. 75, 76. a Ibid., p. 146. The writer in the North British Review, already...

...shortest and slowest steps." (2-174). If (he says), it could be demonstrated that any complete organ existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." (2-169). He does not tell us how his four or five primordial types were created. Whether they were...