ABSTRACT
The Ice-age he cannot ignore, though he dislikes it, is evidently shy of it and would fain be rid of it if he could; he wisely puts a bit in its mouth, and utilises it to his own advantage. The reason is obvious, as it must have destroyed or largely minimised all life which was subject to its operations, and given an entirely new direction and setting, to the many organic species that it affected. “On the theory of natural selection” “we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history ‘Natura non facit saltum.’ Unquestionably there is in all natures a true unity of type, but unity of descent is by no means a necessary sequitur, as Darwin would have us believe. Human nature in its everyday and ordinary manifestations is very complex, and to condemn another because his complexity takes violent turns and directions, is to condemn oneself.
