[224] See Scientific Opinion of September 29, 1869, p. 366.
[225] Fortnightly Review, New Series, vol. iii. April 1868, p. 508.
[226] Scientific Opinion, of October 13, 1869, p. 408.
[227] Fortnightly Review, New Series, vol. iii. April 1868, p. 509.
[228] "Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière," tome ii. 1749, p. 327. "Ces liqueurs séminales sont toutes deux un extrait de toutes les parties du corps," &c.
[229] See Nature, March 3, 1870, p. 454. Mr. Wallace says (referring to Mr. Croll's paper in the Phil. Mag.), "As we are now, and have been for 60,000 years, in a period of low eccentricity, the rate of change of species during that time may be no measure of the rate that has generally obtained in past geological epochs."
[230] "Habit and Intelligence," vol. i. p. 344.
[231] If anyone were to contend that beside the opium there existed a real distinct objective entity, "its soporific virtue," he would be open to ridicule indeed. But the constitution of our minds is such that we cannot but distinguish ideally a thing from its even essential attributes and qualities. The joke is sufficiently amusing, however, regarded as the solemn enunciation of a mere truism.
[232] Noticed by Professor Owen in his "Archetype," p. 76. Recently it has been attempted to discredit Darwinism in France by speaking of it as "de la science mousseuse!"
[233] "Lay Sermons," p. 342.