ABSTRACT
White does not provide a satisfactory alternative to Design, but then - unlike Darwin or Wallace -he does not claim to do so. Even allowing for the array of results and 'hints' we have looked at, he is almost as remarkable for his reticence as for what he has to say. He had faith in the future of his discipline, and at the beginning of the tweny-first century he can still surprise us, as will be clear if only from the previous chapter, and in a sense, we can include him in discussions which had yet to take place in his day. But in White the natural historian enthusiasm and self-control go hand in hand, we have said. He knew he could not 'travel in time'.
